Sandra Noll Hammond moved to California in 1979, where she was a visiting student at the University of California, Santa Barbara (founded on March 23, 1868), and later, a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Thereafter, having moved to California in 1979, Hammond was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she taught dance history and ballet technique and earned a bachelor of arts degree in liberal studies. 
