Published: July 18, 2013

Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women & Information Technology () was recently recognized as a national U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame awardee. NCWIT is a non-profit organization housed within the 񱦵’s , and helps its members more effectively recruit, retain and advance girls and women in K-12 through college education, and from academic to corporate and startup careers.

Sanders co-founded NCWIT in 2004 to significantly increase women’s meaningful participation in technology and computing. Prior to leading NCWIT, Ms. Sanders held R&D and executive positions at AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent and Avaya, where she received the Bell LabsFellow Award and co-authored six patents. She has served on the Information Technology Research andDevelopment Ecosystem Commission forthe National Academies and the U.S. Commerce Department's Innovation AdvisoryBoard.

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