Pooranam Elayathamby

Pooranam Elayathamby (Sandy) was born in Sri Lanka and worked as a housemaid in the Middle East for close to fifteen years. She married Richard Anderson in 2001 and now lives in the U.S.<br/> Richard Anderson is Sandy’s husband and spent a decade living in the Middle East. A professor of architecture and urban planning for over forty years, Anderson holds a bachelors in architecture from Stanford, a masters in urban planning from the University of Washington and a PhD in regional science from Michigan State University.