Actually, she obtained a high-visibility job that put her in the position to affect thousands of lives by being damn good at it.

Actually, and in short, she obtained the job by lying and she was good at it, but it's impossible to know whether somebody else would have been better at the same job, simply because there is nobody else to have had the exact same job.

And the fact that she was good at it seems quite understandable. From the very little amount of facts we are presented with, it seems that she was willing to do even ethically questionable things to achieve her goals.