West Bloomfield entrepreneur writes memoir on escaping Latvia, taking U.S. tech industry by storm

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West Bloomfield entrepreneur writes memoir on escaping Latvia, taking U.S. tech industry by storm

By chance and by intent, West Bloomfield’s Dagnija Lacis has been in the thick of sweeping changes to society. As an infant, she escaped Latvia with her family, just ahead of menacing Communist forces that seized control of her native land. As a fresh graduate of an Indiana university, she took her math skills to Detroit where she broke glass ceilings to become the first female programmer and first female vice president of tech company Burroughs…