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Dr. Galloway is a civil engineer who became chief executive officer of Pegasus Global Holdings in 2008. Before holding this position, she worked at Nielsen-Wurster as its executive vice president and chief financial officer. In 2004, Dr. Galloway was elected president of the American Society of Civil Engineers – the first woman to hold the position in the organization’s history. She was also appointed to the National Science Board in 2006, and has used this position to mentor girls interested in the sciences. Dr. Galloway earned her bachelor’s degree at Purdue University in 1978, received her MBA from the New York Institute of Technology in 1984, and obtained her doctorate from Kochi University of Technology in 2005. Here, she reads a quote from a one-woman play she created about Emily Warren Roebling, who finished construction on the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband got sick.