Professor Sandoval's research interests involve business and public interest issues including the effect of securities reform legislation; communications business and regulatory issues, and anti-trust market definition and market-entry issues.

Professor Sandoval also has a high interest in policy research in international telecommunications development law and policy. She has drafted speeches and text for international telecommunications accords.
She is also interested in the relationship between communications, transportation and housing infrastructure policies.

Undersecretary for the State of California, Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and Senior Policy Advisory for Housing and Economic Development 2003-March 2004. Staff Director And Acting Undersecretary, April 2001- October 2003. Vice-President and General Counsel - Z-Spanish Media Corporation, April 1999-April 2001 (merged with Entravision Communications Corporation August 2000). Director for the Federal Communications Commission, (FCC), Office of Communications Business Opportunities (OCBO), August 1995-April 1999. Deputy Director, OCBO, August 1994-July 1995, Washington D.C. Associate, Law Offices of Munger, Tolles & Olson, 1991-1993 Law Clerk to Judge Dorothy W. Nelson, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1990-1991.

Communications Law, Contracts, Property, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Regulated Industries and Administrative Law.

Professional Qualifications: Member, California Bar. Member, Federal Communications Bar Association. Member, Sacramento County Bar Association. Member, La Raza Lawyer's Association Professor Sandoval is fluent in Spanish and has basic conversational and reading knowledge of Portuguese and French.