Sandra is a national and international award-winning communications professional who has held senior leadership roles inside organizations and now consults, providing strategic counsel to clients in the health and human services sectors. Sandra spent years struggling to live with, understand, and get help for what she now knows were symptoms related to menopause. Resolved to help make sure other women get the help they need faster, she became a founding volunteer with the Menopause Foundation of Canada (MFC) in 2022. Along with several other resources, she wrote MFC’s two landmark reports that quantified for the first time the impact of menopause in Canada.

Sandra earned a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University and is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction at The University of King’s College in Halifax.