Samantha Parlier loved cars in high school. She spent her after-school job money on improvements to her first car. That passion carried her to Seattle University, where she studied mechanical engineering “obsessed with metallurgy, metal and automotive.
“I was naive enough to think that the automotive industry and big trucks are the same because they have wheels and engines,” she said. “It turns out they’re not at all. But that’s actually what got me into the industry.”
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