Lucinda "Lucy" Sanders (born 1954) is the current CEO and a co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology.

Sanders had three main influences that led her to pursue an education in computer science: her father, her high school math teacher, and her sister.

[3] Upon graduating from high school, Sanders attended Louisiana State University and received her bachelor's degree in computer science.

[2] She also previously held a position in the board of the Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (Atlas),[6] 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 the Center for American Entrepreneurship and the International Computer Science Institute.

[3] Along with Telle Whitney and Robert Schnabel, Sanders hoped to use NCWIT to increase the number of women in computer fields.