Who We Are: Sandra Begay-Campbell

Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandra Begay-Campbell is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National
Laboratories and is a former Regent (Trustee) for the University of New Mexico. Sandra leads Sandia’s technical efforts in the Renewable Energy Program to assist tribes with renewable energy development.

In 1987, 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.
Sandra is a recipient of the University of New Mexico’s 2007 Zia Alumnus Award, the

2005 UNM School of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award and she received the
Stanford University 2000 Multicultural Alumni of the Year Award. 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 is recognized in a new book profiling women engineers, “Changing Our World:
True Stories of Women Engineers.” Begay-Campbell is included in the chapter “Women
in Power”, which describes her effort to provide electricity through solar panels and other alternative energy solutions to hundreds of remote tribal members on the Navajo Reservation.