Sandra Begay-Campbell
Principal Member of the Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories

"Walking in Beauty on an Ever-changing Path, A Native Woman Engineer's Perspective"

Sandra Begay-Campbell is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Sandra leads Sandia's technical efforts in the Renewable Energy Program to assist tribes with renewable energy development. As a member of the Navajo Nation, Sandra's perspective combines her cultural values into a technical environment. Sandra is the former executive director of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase the number of American Indian scientists and engineers.

Sandra received a Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering degree from the University of New Mexico. She worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories before she earned a Master of Science - Structural Engineering degree from Stanford University and she also worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

In 2000, Sandra was a recipient of Stanford University 2000 Multicultural Alumni of the Year Award and she was also selected as a recipient of the Governor's Award for Outstanding Women from the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women. Sandra was awarded the 2003 Women of Color Emerald Honor for Community Service during the Third Annual Women of Color Research Sciences and Technologies Awards Conference.