{"57534":{"#nid":"57534","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Feat of clay brings clean water to developing nations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E -  March 08, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003ETracy Hawkins arrived in a Tanzanian town in\n\u003C\/p\u003E\nEast Africa\nin summer 2005 with a few simple goals.  No. 1 was getting out of her empty Brookhaven house while her kids were away at summer camp. She also wanted to meet people and do something meaningful.  Hawkins\u0027 three-week excursion to teach pottery in Tanzania evolved into a fledgling organization that\u0027s now bringing clean water to two developing countries, with plans for rapid expansion throughout Africa, Latin America and Asia...  After earning an industrial engineering degree from Georgia Tech in 1985, she worked nearly 15 years in corporate  as an efficiency expert and project manager at Equifax and IBM.She left corporate life in 1999, thanks to an inheritance from her grandmother. She spent her time learning pottery and volunteering at the\n\nGalloway\nSchool\nin Atlanta, which her children, \n\nTrent\n, 14, and Lea, 12, attend. One of her self-appointed tasks was setting up a computer program to take lunch orders.  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/printedition\/2009\/03\/08\/filterpure0308.html\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-03-08 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:25","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}