{"647217":{"#nid":"647217","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Isabella Sanders Earns Two More Tech Degrees ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Isabella Sanders, Commencement may feel a bit like the movie \u003Cem\u003EGroundhog Day\u003C\/em\u003E. She is double-dipping \u0026mdash; earning two degrees \u0026mdash; for the second time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/2019\/12\/16\/isabella-sanders-encouraging-women-stem\u0022\u003EIn Fall 2019\u003C\/a\u003E, Sanders earned a master\u0026rsquo;s in operations research in the College of Engineering and a master\u0026rsquo;s in geographic information science and technology in the College of Design. This semester she is earning an MBA from the Scheller College of Business and a Ph.D. from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Although I am a fifth-generation Ph.D. graduate, I am the first woman in my family to get a Ph.D.,\u0026rdquo; Sanders said. \u0026ldquo;My mother was a refugee from Cambodia and became the first woman in her family to graduate from college in the United States.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat is why she is passionate about empowering women in STEM.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Women are often discouraged from staying in STEM, and I hope to change that,\u0026rdquo; said Sanders, who was active in the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). \u0026ldquo;While serving SWE at Georgia Tech I was able to help rebuild a graduate SWE group that has now won awards at the national level.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Sanders, completing two graduate degrees during the pandemic offered some opportunities that she would not have had otherwise. In 2020 she got to do an in-person summer internship at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, doing supplier risk analysis for the industrial base of the Army.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As hard as Covid-19 has been, I believe it has brought me closer to my Ph.D. and MBA classmates and jumpstarted my career,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Redstone she saw a posting for a faculty position at West Point. She applied and got the job.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was hired as an instructor and researcher in the Operations Research Center (ORCEN) within the Department of Systems Engineering in October, and I started teaching in January. After completing my Ph.D., I will move into an assistant professor role within the department,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanders grew up in Port Jefferson, New York. She came to Tech in 2016, after earning a bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree in math from MIT. She said she will miss the people she met at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My classmates-turned-friends have been the most important part of my time at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;No one gets a degree alone. My classmates have made me a better person and scholar. Georgia Tech keeps you humble, and the support network I have had at Tech has been unparalleled.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanders, selected to be the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/2021\/05\/06\/students-prepare-reflect-peers?utm_campaign=daily-digest\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_source=dd-article:17120|2021-05-06\u0022\u003Estudent speaker for the Ph.D. Commencement ceremony\u003C\/a\u003E, will use her speech to acknowledge the people who helped her throughout her journey. After the ceremony she will celebrate with her family and friends.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My Ph.D. friends and I are taking a day trip to the countryside to commemorate the occasion. I\u0026rsquo;m also excited to celebrate with my MBA classmates, unlike my other graduate degrees, we are all graduating at the same time and it\u0026#39;s nice to be able to share the moment,\u0026quot; she said. \u0026quot;I\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to seeing all the other graduates, from every discipline, come together for one event at Bobby Dodd.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanders\u0026rsquo; has several relatives who are Tech graduates: her brother Eli, ECON 2019; her father, Daniel P. Sanders, M.S.AM 1991, M.S. OR 1992, Ph.D. ACO 1993; her grandfather, Hugh A. Sanders, AM 1965, M.S. AM 1969; her great uncle, John J. Owen III, B.S. AE 1969, M.S. AE 1973, M.S. OR 1973, M.S. IE 1992, Ph.D. IE 1993; her great uncle, Hal R. Sanders, EE 1952; and another great uncle, Wylie H. Sanders, EE 1958. She also has several distant relatives who are Tech graduates.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECompleting two graduate degrees during the pandemic offered Sanders some opportunities that she would not have had otherwise.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Completing two graduate degrees during the pandemic offered Sanders some opportunities that she would not have had otherwise."}],"uid":"27713","created_gmt":"2021-05-06 15:10:01","changed_gmt":"2021-05-07 12:09:50","author":"Victor Rogers","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647220":{"id":"647220","type":"image","title":"Isabella Sanders","body":null,"created":"1620315097","gmt_created":"2021-05-06 15:31:37","changed":"1620316670","gmt_changed":"2021-05-06 15:57:50","alt":"Isabella Sanders ","file":{"fid":"245724","name":"europe.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/europe.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/europe.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":964409,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/europe.jpg?itok=0LWaHybC"}},"647218":{"id":"647218","type":"image","title":"Isabella Sanders","body":null,"created":"1620314341","gmt_created":"2021-05-06 15:19:01","changed":"1620314829","gmt_changed":"2021-05-06 15:27:09","alt":"Isabella Sanders","file":{"fid":"245723","name":"headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/headshot_8.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/headshot_8.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":283216,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/headshot_8.jpg?itok=FuL8QPMp"}},"647240":{"id":"647240","type":"image","title":"Isabella Sanders","body":null,"created":"1620330478","gmt_created":"2021-05-06 19:47:58","changed":"1620330523","gmt_changed":"2021-05-06 19:48:43","alt":"Isabella Sanders at MBA case competition","file":{"fid":"245737","name":"mba.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mba.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mba.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":283759,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mba.jpeg?itok=3AqwK_YJ"}},"647241":{"id":"647241","type":"image","title":"Isabella Sanders ","body":null,"created":"1620330771","gmt_created":"2021-05-06 19:52:51","changed":"1620330972","gmt_changed":"2021-05-06 19:56:12","alt":"Isabella Sanders at Americold ","file":{"fid":"245738","name":"research.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/research_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/research_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1502295,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/research_0.jpg?itok=DyAqZMKS"}},"647242":{"id":"647242","type":"image","title":"Isabella Sanders","body":null,"created":"1620331330","gmt_created":"2021-05-06 20:02:10","changed":"1620331370","gmt_changed":"2021-05-06 20:02:50","alt":"Isabella Sanders with West Point cadets","file":{"fid":"245739","name":"cadets.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cadets.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cadets.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":737602,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cadets.jpg?itok=rDbzvb7i"}}},"media_ids":["647220","647218","647240","647241","647242"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181854","name":"Isabella Sanders"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:victor.rogers@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EVictor Rogers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["victor.rogers@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}