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• Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt is a contestant on Survivor season 44.
• Heidi is from Puerto Rico.
• She is an engineering supervisor.

Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt is the oldest girl competing on season 44 of Survivor. But she’s additionally one of many hardest, as we noticed within the first episode, when Heidi made fireplace for her tribe. The 43-year-old Puerto Rican native has made it to the merge as an authentic member of the dominant Soka tribute, the place she fashioned a decent alliance with NYC firefighter Danny Massa.

Now that it’s each castaway for themselves, Heidi has to outwit, outplay, and outlast the others, if she desires to carry dwelling the $1 million grand prize to her household. And if anybody can do it, it’s Heidi! Find out extra about Heidi under.

Heidi is from Puerto Rico.

Heidi lived in Puerto Rico for greater than half her life. She moved to the U.S. after faculty despite the fact that she may barely communicate English.

“I pretty much had nothing. I didn’t have any money; I didn’t have a bed. Pretty much nothing other than an offer for a job,” Heidi advised Parade about immigrating to America. “In the beginning, I had to struggle a bit and hustle quite a bit in order to get myself going. And that struggle and adaptation that I had to do to move to the U.S. from Puerto Rico, I’m very proud of that.”

She lives in Pittsburg.

Heidi presently lives in Pittsburg along with her husband and their two kids. She moved from New York to be nearer to her husband’s household.

She’s an engineering supervisor.

Since Aug. 2022, Heidi has been employed at Hewlett-Packard, Inc as a software program R&D supervisor, in keeping with her LinkedIn. She beforehand labored at United States Steel Corporation for five years and IBM for 8 years.

She has two kids.

Heidi and her husband Michael Greenblatt have two daughters. The household of 4 took a visit to Italy final fall, after Heidi filmed Survivor. Heidi shared epic pictures from the holiday on her Instagram.

She’s a proud Latina.

Heidi proudly talked about her Puerto Rican roots with Parade. “I want to represent my people, my family,” she stated. “I want to represent Latinas out there, Latinas working in STEM, and all those people who may have an accent, may sound different, and look different.”

Heidi’s fellow castaway Yam Yam Arocho can also be from Puerto Rico. Yam Yam is definitely the primary Survivor contestant to stay in Puerto Rico on the time of filming.

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