Lucy Sanders is CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and also serves as Executive in Residence at the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder(CU.)
She has an extensive industry background, having worked in development and executive positions at AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Bell Labs, and Avaya Labs for over 20 years, where she specialized in systems-level software and solutions (multi-media communication and customer relationship management.) In 1996, Lucy was awarded the Bell Labs Fellow Award, the highest technical accomplishment bestowed at the company, and she has six patents in the communications technology area.
Lucy serves on several boards, including the Engineering Advisory Council and the Department of Computer Science Advisory Board at CU, the Denver Public Schools Computer Magnet Advisory Board, the Advisory Board for the Women's College Applied Computing Program at the University of Denver, and several corporate boards. In 2004 she was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Engineering at CU. Lucy also is Program Chair for the 2006 Grace Hopper Conference.
Lucy received her B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Louisiana State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, respectively. |
