Sandra Wilkin

Sandra Wilkin, B.S., B.S., was appointed by Governor Kathy Hochul on March 17, 2022 as vice chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York. Ms. Wilkin has been serving as a member of the Board since June 15, 2016, when she was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to a term that ends in June 2023. She is the first female graduate of both a CUNY community college – Kingsborough – and a senior college – Hunter – to serve as vice chairwoman.

Ms. Wilkin is chief executive officer of Bradford Construction, the construction management firm she founded in 1989, based on a mission to optimize services and operations on complex, large-scale building projects. Over the past three decades, she has grown the company into one of New York’s premier women-owned business enterprises (WBE). To support the infrastructure and sustainability needs of emerging minority- and women-owned business enterprises (MWBE), she has developed critically important mentoring programs.

Ms. Wilkin co-founded the Women Builders Council – an organization that advances the role of women in the building industry – with a campaign “to break the concrete ceiling.” She is also a member of the NYS and NYC MWBE Advisory Councils and NYC School Construction Authority Diversity Board. In 2013, she helped spearhead the passage of NYC Local Law 1, landmark legislation that increases MWBE participation goals in government contracting.