Sandy is a frequent speaker at events & conferences, and guest contributor to publications & podcasts.

Media appearances include Fast Company, the Financial Post, Crain’s Chicago Business, CBC News, Bloomberg Business, MarketWatch, and WGN Radio.

Sandy is Lecturer at Drake University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Other speaking appearances include NXNE, ASTC, The Digital Media Summit, multiple NASA/Apollo events, and Drake University’s Everclass series.

Interviews

• 5 Hobbies That Make People Better At Their Jobs | Fast Company

• Improv builds Workplace Skills | The Globe and Mail

• Lessons from the Improv Stage | Talk about Talk Podcast

• Using Apps | Crain’s Chicago Business

Publications

• Europa Clipper: Ocean Worlds Lab | NASA/JPL

• Europa Clipper: Spacecraft Model | NASA/JPL

• Sharing the Science: NASA’s Solar System Ambassadors | NASA/JPL

• Apollo 12 Lightning Strike | Cosmosphere (w/NASA Apollo Flight Director Gerry Griffin)

• The Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) Project | AGU 2024

• Eclipse Adventures: U.S. Student Ambassadors’ Celestial Quest | AGU 2024

• Overlapping In Situ Juno and Remote Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope Observations of Jupiter’s Radiation Belts | AGU 2024

• Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope Science, Education, and Outreach during the Great American Eclipses – Probing the Inner Corona with High Angular Resolution Radio Wavelength Eclipse Observations | AGU 2024

• Improvising through the Threshold | TEDx + The Second City

• All Content is Local | The Second City

• SpaceX Launch Coverage | Cosmosphere

• Mars 2020 Landing Q&A | Cosmosphere

• Mars 2020 Launch Q&A | Cosmosphere

• Why Elon Musk would make one helluva improviser | Second City Network

• Super Bowl Comedy Advertising Coverage | The Message (with Kevin Keane)

Speaking

• JPL von Karman Lecture Series (NASA’s CADRE Project) | NASA JPL

• JPL von Karman Lecture Series (NASA’s Deep Space Network) | NASA JPL

• Everclass Series | Drake University

• Meet the Deep Space Network | Cosmosphere International Science Center & Space Museum

• First & Last Steps Apollo Gala | Cosmosphere

• Improving Agility & Responsiveness in a Disrupted World | ASTC

• Co-Creation in Real Time | NXNE Interactive Conference

• 5 Things We've Learned from Audiences | Digital Media Summit

• Saying Yes, And to Enterprise Risk Management | Conference Board of Canada

• The Art of Improvisation | HR Leaders Summit

• Apollo and Mission Control: Saying “Yes, And” to Collaboration | Cosmosphere

• Making Decisions at the Speed of Culture | Dx3

• Co-Host, Panel Moderator | Dx3 2020, 2019

• Beyond the Buzzwords: Panel Moderator | Dx3 2017

• Host, Speaker | EnsembleCo: The Future of Funny

• Host, Speaker | Strategy: Shopper Innovation Awards

• Co-Host (3x) | Canadian Marketing Association: National Marketing Awards Gala

• Building Businesses | Chicago Chamber of Commerce