Sandi is retired after twenty years as a New York State Trooper. She worked as a uniform Trooper for ten years and then spent ten years in the rank of Investigator in the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. During her police career Sandi had countless instances of interaction with youth. Also during her career she was assigned to the Protective Services Unit tasked with guarding the Governor and his wife. Prior to Sandi's police career Sandi was employed as a camp counselor working with children ages eight to sixteen in a residential summer camp program in western New York. Sandi is a graduate of Erie Community College with a degree in Criminal Justice. In 2004 Sandi fulfilled her life-long dream of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail when she and her partner Cathy backpacked 2174.1 miles from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Mt. Katahdin, Maine over a period of six months and five days. Sandi lives in a log home nestled in the Adirondack mountains of New York State.