Sarah Reardon serves as senior program officer for the duPont Fund, overseeing grantmaking strategy and stewarding relationships with grantees that are community anchor institutions—including colleges and universities, K-12 schools, museums, and other cultural and historic preservation organizations. 

Prior to joining the duPont Fund in 2023, Sarah worked as Director, Academic and Student Achievement for Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ). She led the U.S. Department of Education-funded Title III Strengthening Institutions Program, BRIDGES. The highly competitive $2.2 million grant helped FSCJ expand its support of limited-income students by strengthening academic quality, institutional management and fiscal stability. Sarah also worked as a grant writer for FSCJ, successfully generating more than $15 million in federal, state and local grants for the institution. She brings more than 15 years of experience in both student affairs and academic affairs at Florida State College at Jacksonville, University of North Florida, Duke University and North Carolina State University. 

Sarah earned her B.A. in English from Elon University and a M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration from North Carolina State University. She lives in the San Marco area of Jacksonville with her family, including two daughters. She is a doctoral student in the University of Florida's Higher Education Administration Ed.D. program, where her research interests are in higher education policy, culturally responsive undergraduate teaching and learning, and embedding strengths-based education into first-year experience curriculum.