Sandra Sleight-Brennan Collection

Sandra Sleight-Brennan is a nationally known scriptwriter and audio producer and has worked on numerous projects focusing on the history and culture of the Appalachian Ohio region, women's history, and environmental issues. Her projects have won 21 national and international awards. She taught script writing and audio production at Ohio University for 14 years and did media training and consulting for the United Nations in central Asia in 1999 and in South Sudan in 2010. Sandra Sleight-Brennan grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and was the oldest of four children. She attended Ohio University majoring in General Studies. In 1973 she got a job at the CBS TV affiliate as a Production Assistant. Sandra Sleight-Brennan then moved to New York City working behind the scene on commercials. Then in 1974 she returned to Athens and worked at WOUB-TV producing a public access show "Lock, Stock, and Barrel." In 1976 her husband John Brennan moved with her to Washington, D.C. where she at worked WTOP-TV coordinating interviews with Presidential candidates. However in 1977 they moved back to Athens and bought 35 acres in rural Rome Township and raised 2 children; Rory (1979) and Shamus (1984). From 1977-1984 she worked as the Public Relations Director at Tri-County Community Action Agency. Sandra Sleight-Brennan's first NPR piece grew out of the Vanishing Landscape Series about growing up on a farm, a show called Farm Life: The American Idea which Horizon used as their holiday special for Thanksgiving in 1989. Each show and series she produced grew out of unanswered questions she had about several topics including her first radio documentary on women's history - A Woman's Place.