Sandra Richardson

Sandra Richardson has been an activist and facilitator in Minneapolis for most of her life, and currently leads The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond’s Undoing Racism workshops across the Twin Cities. Her involvements include: board member of African Community Services, Co-chair of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park Legacy Council and represents the council as part of the Parks and Power Coalition. She managed the Catholic Charities Family Shelter for 10 years and managed and directed Sabathani Community Center’s Family Resources program serving approximately 20,000 people for basic needs support annually for 7 years. As the principal of Sankofa Consulting, Sandra has worked to strengthen anti-racist initiatives in community non-profits, labor organizations and local governments. Sandra is currently the Undoing Racism, Healing & Organizational Consultant for Brownbody, Inc. Selected to be a 2016 Roy Wilkins Community Policy Fellow, she is now a Roy Wilkins Advanced Methods Policy Fellow. In 2018, Sandra was a member of the Roy Wilkins Institute delegation to the Fifth World Conference on Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality in Vitoria, Brazil.