Sandy "Mama" Reinhardt

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Sandy "Mama" Reinhardt is a respected and admired leader in the leather community (part of the LGBT community) which is also known as the BDSM community. She has been a leader for many years and very active in the fundraising arena for most of those, including her annual Breast Cancer Dinners, LeatherWalk (for the AIDS Emergency Fund & the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund) which kicks off Leather Pride Week leading up to the Folsom Street Fair and Toy Drive for Camp Sunburst, a program for children and families affected living with HIV/AIDS.

Based in the San Francisco / Bay Area she has devoted her life to helping others by networking and organizing community activists for short-term and ongoing campaigns.

She has judged countless local, regional and international contests from every walk of the LGBT community and her accolades include San Francisco Pride Grand Marshall, and Proclamations from city, county and state. "Mama" as she is known is respected and revered most for her ability to consistently galvanize and motivate her international family, with her best known philosophies of, "We Are Family" with "Manners and Respect." Mama's Family has over 800 family members across the U.S. & Canada who together raise over $1,000,000 a year for a wide variety of Leather/LGBT organizations and charitable organizations.