Corazon Sandoval Foley

Corazon Sandoval Foley in 2023 has written Ten Books in retirement (Three Books are on Asian American History -- Fairfax County Asian American History Project; VALOR: Asian American Soldiers, Police, Firefighters; Asian American Historical Markers in my Beloved Virginia). She wrote Four Books on Fairfax County History, particularly on her hometown of Burke, Virginia -- Little Zion Baptist Church and the Case of Loving; Burke Vignettes - Settler Sagas from Coffer to Foleys; More Burke Vignettes: In Honor of Good Neighbors; The First Burke Firefighters. She wrote Three Books on her Sandoval-Foley Family -- Long Ago and Far Away: WWII Diary of Daniel Foley, Jr. of Vallejo, California; Sandoval Stories- Filipino American Odyssey from Iloilo, Palawan, Manila to Fairfax County, Virginia; Quintessential American: Vietnam Veteran Michael Daniel Foley and the Foley Community Center of Fairfax County, Virginia. Corazon Sandoval Foley is a Filipino American longtime resident with her husband Michael Daniel Foley of her hometown of Burke, Virginia since 1980. She retired in 2007 after some 30 years of service with the US State Department and has received several awards, including 2009 Lady Fairfax by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, 2017 Virginia Women in History by the Library of Virginia, 2020 Andrus Award for Outstanding Community Service by AARP Virginia. Corazon Sandoval Foley in 2007 founded the Foley Community Center Project (aka Burke/West Springfield Senior Center Without Walls). She and her husband Michael Daniel Foley have two children (Joshua and Melinda) and two grandchildren (Daniel and Ciara, Burkites born in their Burke, Virginia hometown).