Lucy Sanders

Lucinda M. Sanders (also known as Lucy Sanders) is Executive in Residence and NCWIT co-founder in the Center for Technology Workforce Innovation at the University of Colorado. She served as NCWIT's operational CEO for 20 years and continues to participate actively in NCWIT directions (including as a Director and member of the organization's executive committee) as well as working with the Elevate Quantum Tech Innovation Hub where, as the Principal Investigator, she leads the Workforce Development Initiatives funded by the U.S. EDA. She is the recipient of many distinguished honors in the STEM fields, including induction into the US News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame in 2013. Upon graduating from high school, Sanders attended Louisiana State University and received her bachelor's degree in computer science. Sanders then attended the University of Colorado Boulder where she attained a master's degree in computer science.

Professional career

In her early career, Sanders worked as a Research and Development (R&D) Manager at Bell Labs. She later became an executive vice president and worked as the CTO of Lucent Customer Care Solutions until 1999. She moved on from Bell Labs to work at Inc CRM Solutions at Avaya Labs for two years, until she founded the National Center for Women and Information Technology in 2004, where she currently works as the Executive in Residence the Denver Public Schools Computer Magnet Advisory Board, the MSRI, the Engineering Advisory Council at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is a Trustee for is a Trustee at the Colorado School of Mines and the International Computer Science Institute.

NCWIT

Sanders initially co-founded the National Center for Women & Information Technology in 2004, Along with Telle Whitney and Robert Schnabel, Sanders hoped to use NCWIT to increase the number of women in computer fields.

Publications Improving Gender Composition in Computing, Jill Ross, Liz Litzler, Joanne Cohoon and Lucy Sanders, Communications of the ACM, April 2012 Strategy Trumps Money: Recruiting Undergraduate Women into Computing, Lecia J. Barker, J. McGrath Cohoon, and Lucy Sanders, IEEE Computer Magazine, 2010. Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology Research and Development Ecosystem: Retaining Leadership in an Increasingly Global Environment, National Research Council of the National Academies, January 2009. IT Innovation and the Role of Diversity, Lucinda Sanders, Black IT Professional Magazine, Summer 2006. Ahuja, Sid and Sanders, Lucinda M., “Multimedia Collaboration”, AT&T Technical Journal, October 1995. Katz, Bryan and Sanders, Lucinda M., “MMCX Server Delivers Multimedia Here and Now”, AT&T Technology, Winter 1995 – 1996. Glass, Kathleen K. and Sanders, Lucinda M. (1992). “Managing Organizational Handoffs with Empowered Teams”. AT&T Technical Journal (22) Volume 71 Number 3, pp. 22 – 29.

Awards and recognition Women's Business Collaborative Trailblazer in Gender Equity & Diversity, 2024 Bob Newman Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Technology Association, 2016 US News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame, 2013 A. Nico Habermann Award, 2012 George Norlin Distinguished Service Award, 2011 Boulder County Business Review Outstanding Women, 2010 Soroptimist International of Los Angeles Women of Vision Award, 2006 Silicon Valley Tribute to Women in Industry Award for business excellence and community outreach, 2000

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