As Director of Finance and Operations, Sandra Whisler oversees financial management, human relations, and information technology. Whisler comes to PHLP from PolicyLink, where she served as the director of finance and operations, and before that from CompuMentor, where she was first the launch director for www.techsoup.org and then vice president and managing director responsible for finance and operations. Previously, Whisler had a long career in academic publishing, including serving as director of electronic publishing and associate director for the Journals Division at the University of California Press, and assistant director and director of Journals Marketing at the University of Chicago Press. She holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.