Sandra Goodridge
Revson Fellow 2007-2008
Consultant
Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies
Sandra Goodridge is a consultant for the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies where she focuses on documenting the stories of Hurricane Katrina survivors. She is the former founding Director of the National Urban League’s Division of Health and Quality of Life, where she created health education programs in HIV/AIDS prevention, child obesity, and mental health promotion. Goodridge is also a former mental health counselor, proud mentor, and amateur photographer.
Revson was a glorious, guiltless, officially sanctioned and supported year of immersion into lectures, good conversation, and the bottomless yield of Columbia’s impressive libraries. It made a gift of that most precious commodity of all: time. Nor could it have been delivered in better company or in more congenial surroundings. We ate together, talked endlessly, traded on our elevated status to bug professors for tutorials, and forged friendships that endure to this day.
