Download high-resolution photoSandra Park is director of external offerings and partnerships for the Carnegie Foundation. She oversees the development and execution of workshops on network initiation, improvement science and practical measurement and helps support the work of other educational organizations interested in accelerating their capacity to improve. She completed the Improvement Advisor program at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in 2011 and formerly served as the director of the foundation's Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network (BTEN).

Park previously taught elementary school in Oregon, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., and was director of programs at First Graduate in San Francisco. She holds a B.A. in sociology from Georgetown University, a teaching credential and M.A.T. from Louis & Clark College, an Ed.M. in administration and policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in education policy from UC-Berkeley.