Sandra Gale is the medical provider at the ACL Teen Centers. She is responsible for providing primary health care services and prevention counseling to students within the school teen centers. She divides her time between the Laguna Acoma Jr/Sr High School and the To’Hajiilee Community School.

Sandra is an advanced practice nurse who graduated as a Certified Nurse Midwife with an MPH from John’s Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD in 1976 and her MSN and certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of Texas, Austin, TX in 1995.

Sandra has had many years of experience in primary care especially in Women’s health and reproductive care. She has worked in many settings serving ethnically diverse populations with limited financial resources. Her experiences as a peace corps volunteer in Venezuela in 1974 was the impetus for her interest in public health issues especially in the realm of maternal/child health.