Sandra Cordova Micek

President & CEO | Window To The World Communications, Inc.

Sandra Cordova Micek is President & CEO of Window To The World Communications, Inc., the parent organization of WTTW, Chicago’s PBS station and WFMT, Chicago’s classical music radio station.

Prior to WTTW-WFMT, Cordova Micek served as Senior Vice President, Global Brands for Hyatt, where she was a change agent, helping to transform the organization to become purpose‐driven and brand‐led by developing break‐through, integrated, cross‐platform programs and by being laser focused on the target audience. She co-led Hyatt’s diversity business resource group, Latinos at Hyatt. Before that, Cordova Micek was Senior Vice President, Marketing, for USA TODAY, where she was actively involved in the digital transformation journey of the company. She also ran Women at NBCU and spent almost 10 years in Silicon Valley holding strategic management positions at Yahoo! and Accenture (San Francisco and London). Cordova Micek began her career at Turner Broadcasting in New York, and earned a BA in Communications/Television, Radio and Film Management at the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. She is currently the Advisory Board Chair of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Communications where she created a scholarship for Latinas. She earned an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania where she was the Ford Motor Company Scholar.

Cordova Micek has earned numerous awards including two Shortie Awards honoring the best in social media, a 2014 SMARTIE award from the Mobile Marketing Association, the Fast Company 2013 Innovation by Design award, a Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, a Brand Innovator Award, and the Latina Style Award. In 2019, Cordova Micek was named the McCormick Foundation Fellow in the inaugural class of the Leadership Greater Chicago Daniel Burnham Fellowship program for C-level executives and a Chicago United Business Leader of Color Award recipient. She was recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business as a Notable Leader in DEI in 2023 and a Notable Latino Leader in 2024.

Cordova Micek also serves on the Boards of PBS, Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Community Trust and the Economic Club of Chicago.