Sandy Rinck

Sandy Rinck serves as special advisor to former Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley. She was educated at the University of Maryland and has decades of experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. On Capitol Hill, she has worked in the offices of several members of Congress where she served in all of the casework, legislative, press, administrative and staff leadership positions there. Her private-sector service includes lobbying Congress on a variety of issues on behalf of clients of a professional corporation. She previously served in the nonprofit sector with a banking association, the sole mission of which was to advocate for progressive financial services legislation at the national level.

Ms. Rinck returned to the public sector as Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley during the Clinton Administration. During that time, she worked on the whole gamut of education issues coming before the Secretary – early childhood, elementary and secondary, postsecondary, international, research, as well as Congressional affairs, and internal Education Department matters. Since the end of the Clinton Administration, Ms. Rinck has represented Secretary Riley on public education matters in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere throughout the country. During all of her career, Ms. Rinck has maintained strong professional connections with many friends and colleagues throughout the Legislative and Executive branches of government, as well as in school systems, colleges and universities, unions, associations, foundations, nonprofit organizations and other education-related activities. She works collaboratively with those contacts in a variety of effective ways to improve public education for all of our nation’s students.