My advisor, Prof. Dr. Eileen M. Trauth, was originally from Ohio, where she and a couple of her sisters were raised with love and care by her adorable, supportive Garman parents. She did her bachelor degree in English, Speech Communications, and Theology (Magna Cum Laude) at the School of Education, University of Dayton. Right after graduating, she spent some time teaching at local high schools. And that was also a time that she began to have a would-be family of her own, wedding with a true gentleman. Not too long, she decided to further her academic career by pursing a Ph.D. at the School of Information Science, the University of Pittsburgh. And it was the place that she has deeply founded her research interests in socio-culture, international, IT workforce, and diversity.
Personally, Dr. Trauth loves reading and travelling. In the past six months, she was visiting a few countries in Africa and a couple of countries in Europe. And during a year, she often visits her sisters and her parents in OH. So far, travelling back and forth between PA and OH seems to be her routine. Although spending more time on traveling and working, she has a very lovely small family with her very own eternal soul mate, long life friend, and life partner, Kathy, who is now spending her retirement with Dr. Trauth at an off-campus house. So far, it has already been over thirty years that they both, Dr. Trauth and Kathy have been living together, and I am still looking forward to seeing them living together for the rest of their lives.
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