Ruth Hicks

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Supply Chain professional with experience in manufacturing, semiconductor, and high…

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Volunteer Experience

  • Alabang Ladies International Group Graphic

    Community Volunteer

    Alabang Ladies International Group

    - 2 months

    Science and Technology

    Volunteered with impoverished youth within the Manila slums. Fed, clothed, and washed children.

  • Martial Arts Instructor

    Arizona Blind Dragon Martial Arts

    - 4 years 8 months

    Arts and Culture

    Teaching children and adults in the community basic safety awareness and self-defense.

Projects

  • "Cradle to Grave: A Visual Supply Chain Detailing the Interconnectedness of the Citizens of the World and the Products We Love"

    - Present

    An Honors Thesis Project:

    In April of 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment manufacturing facility in the capital city of Dhaka, Bangladesh came crashing down – killing over 1,100 people and severely injuring thousands more. This was the single deadliest clothing-factory accident in history, and it took place in the twenty-first century.

    I was a high school junior at the time of this event, I remember watching the enormous pile of dust covered bodies with the kind of detached…

    An Honors Thesis Project:

    In April of 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment manufacturing facility in the capital city of Dhaka, Bangladesh came crashing down – killing over 1,100 people and severely injuring thousands more. This was the single deadliest clothing-factory accident in history, and it took place in the twenty-first century.

    I was a high school junior at the time of this event, I remember watching the enormous pile of dust covered bodies with the kind of detached concern that these sorts of international catastrophes receive from foreign observers. I can still recall feeling a sense relief that this sort of thing didn’t happen in my own country, that our businesses and government had safety measures in place to prevent senseless death and pain. Like most people, I didn’t understand that those workers inside of Rana Plaza were fulfilling orders for American companies, the very places you and I shop, like Walmart, J.C. Penney, and Children’s Place.

    Despite the protectionist rhetoric currently circling many countries, the fact that world continues to flatten as globalization increases cannot be disputed. In this global economy, supply chains are the roads that connect us with goods, people, and information. Many, diverse people have a hand in paving those roads, and I want to give them a face; so that the next time you take a sip of coffee, or look at the t-shirt folded in your drawer, you see more than the materials.

Honors & Awards

  • MIT Supply Chain Excellence Award Recipient

    MIT

    The MIT Supply Chain Excellence Award fellowships are given annually at select partner universities to the most outstanding graduating senior supply chain and/or industrial engineering majors.

  • 1st Place - Supply Chain Management Association Case Competition

    Arizona State University

    My team and I won the regional supply chain case competition and continued onto nationals to represent Arizona State University.

Organizations

  • The Procurement Foundry

    Northern California Chapter

    - Present

    The largest digital, global community for Procurement and Supply Chain Management professionals. A place where industry practitioners come to gather, learn, share, and grow.

  • Delta Sigma Pi

    Alumni

    - Present

  • ASU - Supply Chain Managment Association

    Member

    - Present

  • Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

    Student Member

    - Present

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