Sandra LaFleur

Miami Dade College. Sandra LaFleur currently serves as Miami Dade College’s first-ever Director of Social Change Initiatives. In serving at the largest public institution of higher education, Sandra focuses primarily on building and sustaining a vibrant social innovation ecosystem in order to support the College’s commitment to change-making across its student body. With a deep interest and passion for issues of social justice – particularly those regarding youth and education – Sandra has developed her career as a mission-focused leader, namely from the youth development and college success fields where she acquired cross-functional experience in strategy, operations, organizational growth, and change management, program/product design and execution, innovation and research, talent, and communications. Some of her past roles have included serving as National VP of the Program for Summer Search and as National Associate Vice President of Research, Evaluation, and Innovation for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Whether focused on college success, social responsibility, academic outcomes, or non-cognitive skills, Sandra’s work has largely involved improving program outcomes via performance management practices, launching innovations to build capacity for program scale, and refining program design to increase social impact via student outcomes. Sandra earned her MS degree in Sociology from Florida State University and a dual BA degree from the University of Miami in History/Sociology where she was welcomed into Phi Beta Kappa. She lives in Miami, Florida with her family.