Sandy brings to AED more than 30 years of experience providing traditional and innovative public relations, health communications expertise, and partnership development support to Federal government, nonprofit, and private sector clients.
Currently, she helps implement the publicity activities for CDC’s annual influenza campaign and is developing a communications plan and core messages for CDC’s pandemic flu awareness campaign. She is an award-winning video scriptwriter, and her creative public relations campaigns and ads have been highlighted in local business journals.

Prior to joining AED, Sandy used her health communications and social marketing talents to support the work of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC); the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); the National Institutes of Health (NIH); the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS); the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); the Epilepsy Foundation; the American Red Cross; and Save the Children.

As principal of her own PR and marketing firm, Sandy planned and managed state media outreach campaigns for hospital associations, hospitals, and outpatient surgery centers. She also orchestrated national print, TV, and radio media campaigns for health professionals and local media campaigns for commercial and non-profit concerns. While serving as a Senior Writer/Editor for Special Olympics International (SOI), Sandy wrote speeches for SOI’s founder, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and former chairman, Sargent Shriver; and op-eds for its current chairman, Dr. Timothy Shriver. She also successfully pitched op-eds to The New York Times and other major dailies and wrote features and promotional pieces to dispel the myths about people with intellectual disabilities.

Sandy holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas in Austin.