How the Girl Scouts CEO went from rocket scientist to America’s biggest champion of girls

There are moments that Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, just can’t forget. 

There was the time a college counselor at her high school in Las Cruces, New Mexico, scoffed at Acevedo’s desire to study engineering. “Girls like you don’t go to college,” she recalls the counselor saying, in a reference to her Mexican ethnicity. 

And there was the time when Acevedo won a competitive four-year scholarship to study engineering, but the male judges were so incredulous of her abilities, they insisted on interviewing her personally. Acevedo remembers one of the judges saying she represented change, and “change for the sake of change is not progress.”  Read more…

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