Sandra Jones (she/her)

Director of Program Collaborations

Sandra joined MFS in 2018, and is the Senior Program Collaboration Manager. She started at MFS as part of the Schools Uniting Neighborhoods Program and now oversees the Albina-Rockwood Promise Neighborhood Initiative, as well as the Successful Families Initiative. She also serves as the project manager for the Innovation Grant that MFS received, as part of the Portland Clean Energy Fund. Currently, she is also the Interim Program Manager for MFS’s Economic Empowerment Program.

She grew up in Hong Kong and Hawaii and received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Sandra began her career in the financial field, but soon realized that serving the community and focusing on education were overpowering passions. She began volunteering in the schools, became a dyslexia tutor, as well as a Title I instructor. She has been working with historically underserved and rapidly changing demographic school districts and neighborhoods, for approximately 15 years.

Sandra is part of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Committee at MFS. She also is the co-chair for the Student Engagement and Leadership Committee at All Hands Raised, Portland, Oregon; is on the Board of Directors for the Metro East Web Academy, Gresham, Oregon and was on the panel for “Implementing Trauma-Informed Responses, Services and Practices in Schools” for the 2022 Promise Neighborhoods and Full-Service Community Schools National Network Conference, in partnership with the U.S Department of Education.

Sandra is a proud mom to a 22 and 23 year old. She loves to create dishes in the kitchen, work in her garden, knit, paint, play the piano and listen to all kinds of music and explore new neighborhoods and foods! And there’s always a special place in her heart for animals!