Valerie grew up in Kansas City when TWA still flew high and the metro area was a company town. Her parents both worked for the airline; her mom Melva was TWA's first female mechanic and her father Tom could fix anything inside the cockpit of a 747. Valerie is not mechanically inclined and thus studied political science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her first trip by plane was to visit Disneyland where she refused to be photographed with Mickey Mouse, a trend toward anonymity that continues to this day.
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