On completing her degree in chemistry Ashley Roberts wasn’t sure where she would go to work. She did have a clear idea what she would be doing.
“I enjoyed the labs while I was taking all my classes,” she recalls. “It was the most interesting thing to me. I told my professor, ‘I don’t know where I’m going to end up, but I’m going to be testing something.’”Several months after graduation from Virginia Wesleyan College in 2013, she landed at the Hampton Roads Sanitation District, where she performed all manner of tests important to keeping the district’s clean-water plant processes in
