gundamexplored:

“Sayla had once dreamed of becoming a doctor, but she instead enrolled
in a school that trained mid-level technicians for the Side 7 project.
And when construction began on the first colony she emigrated.

She
wanted nothing to do with the Republic of Zeon of or the Zabi Family”

-from Mobile Suit Gundam Novel: Awakening; by Yoshiyuki Tomino