Esra Sir M.S

Esra Sisikoglu Sir holds master’s and PhD degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. In her career, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri. Later she held data scientist and research scientist positions within health care (Mayo Clinic) and logistics industries (Target). In her recent position she has been working as a research scientist at Amazon.

Esra first came to US as an undergraduate student from Turkey and followed her career aspirations after finishing her degrees. Through her career, she has always strived to help youth who might be going through the hardships that she experienced. She personally started reaching out to immigrant youth around her, offered mentoring, interview preparation help. She also tried to find scholarship opportunities for students she was in touch with through her network. She recently started volunteering at Scholars and Leaders to be able to connect and serve to a larger BIPOC and immigrant youth.