Sandra LaFleur serves as Miami Dade College's Director of Changemaking Education and Social Innovation. Through collaboration, she focuses on building and sustaining the College's changemaking ecosystem. She works with MDC’s eight campus teams and various partner units to strategically embed changemaker education into both curricular and co-curricular opportunities. Sandra's past experience in the youth development and college access/success fields have focused on strategy setting, operational planning, organizational growth and change management, program/product design and execution, innovation and research, talent development, and communications. Her past roles include serving as National VP of Program for Summer Search and as National Associate VP of Research, Evaluation, and Innovation for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. She currently serves as a national board chair for the Children's Literacy Initiative, as a national board member for The National Mentoring Partnership, and as a local board member for both the Awesome Foundation Miami and Rising Up Adventures.