Sandra Topete joined the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in the fall of 2018 as Director of Academic Personnel. Sandra is a UCLA alumna with over 27 years of service at UCLA. She began her career at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics working for the Space Science Group, and for the last 14 years she has specialized in academic personnel. She held positions as the academic personnel coordinator for the Department of Computer Science in the Samueli School of Engineering, and in the Departments of Economics and Chemistry & Biochemistry in the College of Letters and Science. In her spare time, Sandra enjoys attending football games, concerts and festivals, but most of all she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren.