She interned at the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education in 2003, and in 2004 began work on a master's degree at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Political Sciences.

The following February, when Cozmin Gușă resigned his party post due to a disagreement with the leadership, Șandru did likewise, sitting as an independent for the remainder of the term.

[2] Later that year, she became vice president of the National Initiative Party founded by Guşă, a position she held until 2008.

[14] Șandru once called Iliescu a "communist dinosaur",[9] and referred to the PSD as a "whore party" after it switched its backing from the PNL to the PD in 2007.

[15] Șandru has also been known to criticise President Traian Băsescu, for instance accusing him of abuse of power[16] and calling on him to release his Securitate file.

[23] At the 2020 Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film Festival, she won the best debut prize for her role in Ana.