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Sandra Begay: Trailblazing Native American Innovator Ascends to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
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Sandra Begay
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2026-07-25
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Sandra K. Begay is an American/Navajo Nation mechanical engineer who designs research and development systems at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2020, she was honored by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society's Indigenous Excellence Award. She is known for her work expanding energy access through alternative and renewable solutions for remote tribal members on the Navajo Reservation.
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All charged up: Sandia Labs engineer uses renewable-energy development to make future brighter for American Indian tribes
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Former Navajo Nation vice chairman, council speaker Edward T. Begay dies at 87 - azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
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