Sam is originally from the UK where she taught A level Psychology. She then taught EAL in China(Guangzhou) and Singapore before coming to Thailand in 2014. She is an avid motorcyclist as well as enjoying cooking and golf in her spare time. She has a Masters degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Birmingham.

In addition she has a PGCE in Social Science as well as being CELTA and CLIL trained. Sam has been a WASC coordinator and has presented her collaborative action research into reading programmes at the South East Asian Librarians conference at UWC in Singapore.