Sandy Choi

Born and raised in Chicago, Sandy Choi has spent her professional career passionately supporting the power of the arts and arts education as a professional violinist, a creative visual artist, and as an arts administrator for the last twenty-five years. Sandy currently works as the Senior Manager for Marketing and Communications for the DC Youth Orchestra Program, which is committed to providing equitable, high quality orchestral instrumental training to students of all ages and abilities. She also maintains an active music career as a freelance violinist.

She is a graduate of MIT, where she earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Music and Economics, and earned her Master of International Affairs at Columbia University. She is also a graduate of the CASA advanced Arabic language fellowship program at the American University in Cairo, and recently completed the League of American Orchestras’ Essentials of Orchestra Management course. Her writing and photography has been featured by the BBC, CNN, NPR, and in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.