Sammi is a blind voice/speech teacher and dialect/vocal coach. Sammi previously taught at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music CCM and Illinois Wesleyan University. She also teaches voice/speech for Access Acting Academy, a training program for blind and low vision actors. Sammi has dialect/vocal coached for Netflix, Amazon Prime, 20th Century Fox, and over 100 theatrical productions around Chicago at theatres including Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Timeline Theatre, Lyric Opera, Writers Theatre, Drury Lane, and many more. She holds an MFA with Distinction in Voice Studies from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is on the Board of Directors of The Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA).