Video: female engineer on Big Tujunga Dam

By Kevin Roderick | August 19, 2011 1:10 AM

Michele Chimienti is a Los Angeles County civil engineer who oversaw upgrades of the flood control dam in Big Tujunga Canyon — and she's a world-class fencer.



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