Sandy DeMasi Sandy DeMasi Mentoring Coach Sandy manages communications with mentors and students, and she coaches, tracks, and informally assesses their relationships. Sandy also helps students and mentors connect and resolve challenges via e-mail, and she's involved in ongoing program evaluation. During the academic year, Sandy sends out biweekly discussion prompts appropriate to different student levels, along with advice on how to keep the mentoring relationship growing, and she fields student and mentor responses to those.
Summer holds time for program evaluation and updating and refining materials.
After completing an internship as a teen counselor, Sandy earned her master's degree in counseling with an emphasis in delinquent and at-risk youth from Santa Clara University. She then worked with the Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County, connecting girls and leaders and providing the leaders with training, supervision, and support. Just before arriving at MentorNet in March 2001, Sandy was the volunteer liaison for an elementary school program connecting community members with elementary school teachers and their classrooms, and she connected with a second-grade teacher and classroom of her own. Sandy has a bachelor's degree in advertising from San Jose State University. When I saw the job title 'mentoring coach', I fell in love with it.