Sandra Mayes Unger

Sandra moved from the suburbs to the East Side of St. Paul, Minnesota with her family in 2003. In 2005, she worked with her neighbors to start The Lift, a non-profit that focuses on building relationships with youth through job and life skills training programs. The relationships she formed in her urban neighborhood led her to write “Tribe": Why Do All Our Friends Look Just Like Us?"

She has a B.A. in Organizational Studies from Bethel University, an M.A. in Theology and Philosophy from Bethel Seminary, and an Ed.D. in Leadership from the University of St. Thomas. She is married and has three adult children. Her hobbies are reading and playing tennis.