Dr. Sybil Francis is executive director of the Center for the Future of Arizona and was part of its founding team. She also serves as special advisor to the president of the Arizona State University Foundation. She is a public-policy specialist who began her career working in the U.S. House of Representatives where she played a key role in shaping energy, environmental and national security policy. She later served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where she focused on national research policy. She gained experience in academic administration as part of the leadership team of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science, a small, highly selective college in New York City that provides full-tuition scholarships to students. She earned her B.A. in chemistry at Oberlin College and her Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught at Harvard University and conducted research at the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Today, She is devoting her policy skills and expertise to addressing pressing education, environmental and economic policy issues facing Arizona.
Dr. Francis is deeply involved as a member of the Arizona State University community helping to build the university’s outreach and development efforts. She devotes her energies to helping build the community through the university and to build community issues into the university’s agenda. She serves on a number of boards and commissions, including the Governor’s P-20 Council of Arizona, the P-20 Steering Committee, and is chair of the P-20 Council’s Data, Assessment and Graduation Committee. She serves on the AZ Skill Standards Committee, the Rodel Charitable Foundation’s “All A’s for Arizona” and the Arizona Business and Education Coalition (ABEC), and the ASU Public Schools Initiative Task Force. She is a founding member and co-chair of the ASU Foundation’s Women & Philanthropy program, honorary chair of the ASU President’s Community Enrichment Program, and co-chair of ASU’s Hispanic Community Partnership Scholarship Program. She is also a member of Charter 100. She is dedicated to advancing an Arizona public policy agenda for all Arizonans.
Dr. Francis lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona with her husband Dr. Michael Crow and their daughter Alana.
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