Advisory Council

Deanna Sands earned her master’s degree in journalism at Iowa State University in 1974.

A retired managing editor of the Omaha World-Herald, Sands is also president of the Associated Press Managing Editors association, is a member of the American Press Institute’s Editorial Advisory Board and sits on the Alumni Advisory Board at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Sands is a former member of the American Press Institute advisory board, was a Pulitzer juror in 2005, served as a panelist at the East-West Center's Asia-Pacific Conference in New Delhi in 2005, and also serves on the Alumni Advisory Board of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

She was named Nebraska Journalist of the Year in 1991 by the Society of Professional Journalists, and was a recipient of the University of Nebraska’s Journalism Alumni Award of Excellence.

Sands is president of the of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's Nebraska affiliate, serves on Nebraska’s state board of Combined Health Charities, and is a lifetime member of the University of Nebraska Alumni Association and the Iowa State University Alumni Association.