A resident of New York City and Lambertville, New Jersey, Sandy Hanna grew up in Saigon, South Vietnam, and has been telling her story about that experience all of her life. She is an artist and a writer. She holds an MEd from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a comprehensive in the Biology of Cognition, and her undergraduate degree is from Knox College in Interdisciplinary programs in Science and Literature. She also spent a year studying design at the California Institute of the Arts with post graduate studies at Wharton. She was a designer of children's play spaces, Williamstown Children's Museum and Sesame Place (a joint venture between CTW and Busch Entertainment and facilities for handicapped children), as well as a marketing director and consultant for a variety of diverse industries, including children's museums, theme parks, and modular construction. Her passion, however, is storytelling. |
