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Caroline Lester

Caroline Lester

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Butler was one of the few women bomb techs on the Explosive Ordnance Division of the Air Force. She demonstrates a Packbot, a robot that helped her and her team disable IEDs, at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on Dec. 29, 2009. (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Butler)
Americas

Meet an Air Force bomb tech and the robots who helped her disarm IEDs

Most nights when she was deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, before she fell asleep, Master Sergeant Elizabeth Butler...

Mar 23, 2018
Yasmine Mustafa
Audio

A female founder’s journey from refugee to entrepreneur

Yasmine Mustafa was hiding in her family's bomb shelter in Kuwait when a couple of U.S. diplomats knocked...

Oct 17, 2017
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Democracy

How one programmer used her disability to her advantage

ORLANDO, Florida — When Chieko Asakawa was young, she wanted to be an Olympian. Now, she’s an IBM Fellow,...

Oct 06, 2017
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