Olive Lesueur (CAS’66, MET’85) was born, raised, and educated in Boston, and has worked in the city all her life.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in geography from BU’s College of Liberal Arts (now the College of Arts & Sciences) in 1966, Lesueur became a cartographer and geographer in the earth sciences lab at the US Army Natick Research Labs in Natick, Massachusetts. When her lab moved to Virginia, Lesueur stayed in the Commonwealth and joined the US Department of Transportation in Cambridge—where she still works today as senior program manager for workplace safety and health. Along the way, she earned a master’s degree in urban affairs and public policy from BU and cofounded the Kendall Square Learning Project, an English as a Second Language Program for adults that offers free classes to a broad population of new immigrants.