Sandra performed for the Martha Graham Dance Co. in New York and was the artistic director of the Martha Graham Ensemble. She has choreographed throughout the country and abroad for concert dance, musical and theatrical productions and for dance video. Her work has received awards from the Dance Magazine Foundation, National Foundation for the Advancement for the Arts, Bossak/Heilbrun Foundation and Sloan Science and Technology Foundation. Sandra is director of dance at Loyola University Chicago.