Hi, I’m Sandra 🌱
I am fascinated by how we can live in most truth - with ourselves, each other and reality.
I think a lot about how to cultivate value alignment and interconnectedness in the context of modernity’s challenges.
My perspective is informed by 6+ years working as a people & product manager in startups and an ongoing, independent study into new paradigms of human consciousness and agency.
I am now looking to apply my experience to support AI safety efforts.
You can book a call with me here.
Some Things I’ve Worked On
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In early 2026 I co-sourced an experimental product development retreat with Jarred Filmer and Matthew Huff.
Over two months, we built a prototype of a Claude-assisted team collaboration tool that effectively included the AI in our workflow as an “external librarian” and a “mirror” that helped us make our patterns and challenges more explicit.
We documented our findings and you can read more about it on my Substack.
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I provided operational support for a private pre-conference retreat for AI researchers and during the ILIAD 2025 conference at Lighthaven (Berkeley).
ILIAD is a 5-day unconference bringing together researchers in theoretical AI alignment.
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I received $18,000 in funding from Intentional Ventures to relocate to an intentional community in Hamilton, Canada for 1 year and deepen my holistic women’s reproductive health practice.
During this time I studied pelvic bodywork, women’s rite of passage rituals and hosted a 4-week container for women starting new creative projects.
I have an ongoing practice of working with women 1:1 and host women’s circles.
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In 2023 I hosted a “Relational Rigor” salon on Interintellect and developed a coaching modality focused on helping people unblock key relations in their life.
In early 2024 I joined James Baker and Carol Xu to design a 3-month online course called Relational Agility focused on applying IFS therapy, circling ad T-group practice to workplace communication.
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Between 2020 and 2023 I was leading the product team at Alena, a CBT therapy app for social anxiety.
We were incubated by Techstars in London and raised $1M VC round in 2021.
I was one of the authors on a paper we published with the results of our fully automated CBT intervention.
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In 2022 I co-authored a piece with Milan Griffes where we made a case for funding Jhana meditation research as a potential cause area to support consciousness research and human flourishing.
You can read it here.
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Across 2016-2017 I worked as a Marketing & Design lead for the first (and so far the only!) travel tech hackathon on a plane where 32 participants created prototypes over 72 hours while travelling 9,500 kilometres between Hong Kong and London.
Over a few months I created 4 industry reports, helped host travel tech meetups in London and Hong Kong and led an online marketing campaign that resulted in hundreds of applications.
This was by far the coolest thing I’ve worked on and you can read more about it here.
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Between 2017-2020 I was a Chief of Staff and then a Product Manager at Wunder, where we built a “fitbit for new parents” to help parents provide a higher quality learning environment for their children during their brain’s most formative years.
We were supported by HAX hardware incubator in Shenzhen, China and Stanford StartX program in Palo Alto, California.
You can learn more about it here.
Ways to Work With Me
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My approach combines parts work, somatics, relational practice and energy work and is for people who want to:
increase their relational awareness and skills
mature their leadership style
unblock creativity and find value-aligned work
reduce co-dependence, burnout, misalignment in their life
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I design bespoke workshops and embodied experiences for groups who want to deepen intimacy and connection.
Examples of previous offerings:
Relational skill building workshop for a startup team
New Moon Ritual for a women’s group
Somatic exploration of the archetype of the “mother” for a research community
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I am interested in supporting value-aligned initiatives on a contract/part-time basis in these areas:
burnout prevention
product strategy
field research & building
leadership skill training
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning