Dr. Sanchez currently serves as Technical Fellow to the senior leadership of The Aerospace Corporation on matters concerning military, intelligence community, and civil space. She also served Texas A&M as a Strategic Research Engineer shaping engineering research programs to meet government needs from 2017-2018 and served as Chief Science and Technical Advisor at Headquarters Air Force Space Command. She has more than 30 years of space engineering, management, and financial experience, working in complex international/multidisciplinary efforts, program and crisis management, engineering, operations and many more.