Sanderson is the former Executive Director of CAPE, the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment, a nonprofit that has been developing writers, actors, and executives for leadership positions for thirty years. She has produced national PSAs that raised millions of dollars for Japanese disaster relief and Philippine disaster relief. She is a Flathead Leadership Reservation Fellow; a program designed to develop leaders and explore solutions for humanitarian issues in Montana. She is a consultant to nonprofits and to tribal schools in NW Montana and lives on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

Sanderson received her degree from the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon and held both an M.F.A. in Filmmaking and an M.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Montana. Her favorite pastimes are golfing, biking Going-to-the-Sun Road, and fly-fishing in Montana.