Evelyn Berezin, born to Russian immigrants in 1925, turned her early fascination with her older brother’s Astounding Science magazines and science fiction books into a career in technology. Despite facing gender barriers, including being the only woman in her Brooklyn Poly math classes and being denied a job at the New York Stock Exchange, she made significant contributions to early computing at Elecom and Teleregister. Berezin founded word processor company Redactron, becoming the sole tech com