love was music. She learned to play piano as a child and played it “competitively” into her college years. Renée started coding at age nine and volunteered in a research lab at the Sloan-Kettering hospital in eighth grade. She worked on a project that looked for a correlation between music training and temporal reasoning. It was a small-scale study, but it married Renée’s two great interests. She earned a degree in computer science at SUNY Stony Brook before going into government service in a technology operations role. Renée underplays this part of her résumé, focusing instead on her time in
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