Sandra L. Dunn

Sandra Dunn, a resident of Hampton Bays since 1998, is the owner of Spanish-English Services, a business that provides translating and writing services and language instruction to local institutions, groups, and individuals.  Since 2004 she has also worked with Herstory Writers Workshops, facilitating memoir-writing groups. She is the editor and translator of the bilingual literary magazine Latinas Write/Escriben, a mini-anthology of writing that grew out of Herstory workshops in Farmingville and East Hampton and that was featured in Newsday in July 2006.

In 2005 she was contracted by the Department of Human Services of Southampton Town to write and translate into Spanish Living in Southampton Town: A Guidebook for Residents of Our Community, which was published in 2006. By conveying key provisions of town code in user-friendly language, this 40-page booklet helps residents of Southampton navigate town government, access the services the town offers, and be responsible, law-abiding residents of the town.

Prior to establishing her own business, for eight years Ms. Dunn had a successful career as a Spanish professor, teaching at Bennington College, Middlebury College, and Cornell University. She also has administrative experience in the non-profit sector.  She was on the board of the community advocacy organization OLA of Eastern Long Island, serving five months as Interim President, and was its Executive Director from December 2006 through May 2007.

She currently serves on the governing council of the Hayground School in Bridgehampton. Her other community service work includes volunteering with Literacy Volunteers of America (now Literacy Volunteers of Suffolk) and being the spokesperson for the Coalition for a Worklink Center.

Ms. Dunn grew up in an Air Force family in Myrtle Beach, SC and graduated cum laude from the Honors College of the University of South Carolina before beginning graduate studies at Cornell, where she earned her Ph.D. in Spanish literature. Her husband, Jonathan Haynes, teaches at Long Island University, and her twins, Chloë and Jesse, are seven years old.

In May 2007, she was nominated by the Southampton Democratic Committee to run for a seat on the Southampton Town Board.