Sandy Saperstein, PhD, Senior Consultant: Research and Evaluation

In her role at Sharp Insight, Sandy's goal is to help clients understand, appreciate, and use evaluation to guide and improve their work. Her evaluation work has focused in the non-profit and public sectors and has included evaluation planning, literature reviews, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, data visualization, reporting and capacity building. Throughout her career, she has provided evaluation services in a variety of content areas, including positive youth development, comprehensive sexual health education programming, environmental health, and chronic disease management.

In addition to her work at Sharp Insight, Sandy is also a Lecturer at the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park.  She teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in public health informatics and social media/digital health.  Prior to obtaining her degree in Public Health, Sandy worked as an occupational therapist and provided services to adults with strokes and head injuries.

Sandy holds a Doctorate in Public and Community Health from the University of MD, a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Binghamton University.

Outside "the office"

Sandy loves to play board games with her husband and three sons. Household favorites include Ticket to Ride and SushiGo. She has a 4-legged personal trainer who ensures that she walks every day, three times a day. She is currently exploring the vast potential of YouTube videos to develop basic skills in drawing, watercolor, ukulele, and yoga.