To celebrate Shenetra Moses’ college graduation, her mother pulled childhood photos dating to kindergarten into a poster board collage. Amid the photos was an old, handwritten note, on which a 12-year-old Shenetra laid down her future career plans.
“She said, ‘Mom, I think I want to be an engineer,’ ” Sandra Potts recalled. “I said: ‘Do you even know what that is?’ ”
Now 33, the southside Chicago native grew up with an affinity for taking things apart, favoring math and science, a woman who caught the manufacturing bug on a college internship at a General Motors stamping plant.
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The Detroit Free Press