{"685972":{"#nid":"685972","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Perfect Fit: Crafting a Career at the Intersection of Making, Helping, and Human Mobility","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGrowing up in rural southwest Georgia, Kinsey Herrin loved \u201cmaking stuff.\u201d She loved it so much that she regularly dug up muddy clay from her family\u2019s property and the surrounding area to make ceramics. As a prosthetist\/orthotist, she creates and tests devices that help patients improve or regain mobility \u2014 from prosthetic limbs to braces of all kinds. But Herrin\u2019s role at the Institute is even more expansive. She\u2019s at the epicenter of a research community where medical devices, studies, data, patients, clinicians, and students collide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/node\/44165\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead more \u00bb\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"At Georgia Tech, Kinsey Herrin combines engineering, clinical insight, and purpose to create wearable devices that help people move \u2014 and live \u2014 more freely."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGrowing up in rural southwest Georgia, Kinsey Herrin loved \u201cmaking stuff.\u201d She loved it so much that she regularly dug up muddy clay from her family\u2019s property and the surrounding area to make ceramics. As a prosthetist\/orthotist, she creates and tests devices that help patients improve or regain mobility \u2014 from prosthetic limbs to braces of all kinds. But Herrin\u2019s role at the Institute is even more expansive. She\u2019s at the epicenter of a research community where medical devices, studies, data, patients, clinicians, and students collide.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Kinsey Herrin\u2019s lifelong passion for working with her hands guided her career path, ultimately leading her to become a prosthetist\/orthotist and principal researcher at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2025-10-23 20:31:10","changed_gmt":"2025-10-24 14:45:38","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678443":{"id":"678443","type":"image","title":"kinsey-thumb.jpg","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKinsey Herrin is a principal research scientist in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","created":"1761251487","gmt_created":"2025-10-23 20:31:27","changed":"1761251487","gmt_changed":"2025-10-23 20:31:27","alt":"Woman in a workshop environment with industrial equipment and tools in the background, wearing a floral-patterned blouse and light knit cardigan, representing a modern manufacturing or maker space setting.","file":{"fid":"262466","name":"kinsey-thumb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/10\/23\/kinsey-thumb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/10\/23\/kinsey-thumb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":711102,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/10\/23\/kinsey-thumb.jpg?itok=vHLWUSyd"}}},"media_ids":["678443"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"66220","name":"Neuro"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193656","name":"Neuro Next Initiative"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}