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Kasumi Iida - Restructuring
Women in Engineering
Kasumi Iida is a structural engineer
specializing in earthquake resistant design. Living in Northern California,
a region famous for rocking and rolling every time the San Andreas
fault zone feels a need to re-adjust itself, she stays busy as a risk
management consultatnt performing analyses to estimate potential financial
losses from earthquakes and other natural disasters.
Her background is
unique. Born in the U.S.A., she spent her childhood in Turkey, teenage
years in Japan and South Korea, and then returned to America for
college. After finishing graduate school, she was hired by an American
structural/risk consulting company and sent to Japan to start up
an office in Tokyo before returning to the San Francisco area working
for the same company.
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