Sandra Dunn is the Associate Director of OLA of Eastern Long Island, where she focuses on advocacy, communications, and fundraising. From 2008-2017 she was a program director at the Hagedorn Foundation, where she managed the local immigration and civic engagement grantmaking programs. For 13 years she facilitated Spanish-language memoir-writing workshops through Herstory Writers Workshop and co-edited and co-translated Latinas Write/Escriben (2011), a bilingual anthology of memoirs in progress written by women in Herstory’s Spanish-language workshops. In 2013 she was appointed to the New York State Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and is the 2013 recipient of the Lawrence A. Timpa Memorial Award for Professional Service awarded by the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission. In 2007, she was OLA’s part-time Executive Director, resigning to run for a seat on the Southampton Town Council that year. Sandra holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from Cornell University and has taught at Bennington College, Middlebury College, and Cornell. She lives in Hampton Bays, NY and is working on a poetry collection about borders, thresholds, and other liminal spaces.
