Amanda (Mandy) Sharp has strong roots in the Central Valley with family calling Stanislaus County home for five generations. She has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration with a focus on strategic planning and project management from California State University, Chico and a B.A. from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Mandy’s career began as an entrepreneur in technology, starting her own business to increase technical skills for manufacturing, leadership, clerical and technical workers in her home state of Wisconsin.
She moved to Texas to continue work in I.T. and later to Oregon, where she continued her work with workforce development in a multi-county one-stop resource center at a large community college. This was where Mandy began her path in serving disadvantaged families, combining forces with staff in unemployment, education, job skills training, work experience and social welfare programs.
After moving to California, Mandy served as Tehama County Director of Social Services. In 2018, she became the Deputy Director of Health and Human Services in Placer County leading the veterans, housing and human services divisions.
In September 2021, Mandy joined Stanislaus County as Director of Community Services Agency. She is known for innovation, community partnerships and strategic planning and has targeted the issues of hunger, homelessness and poverty as well as family support, children’s and adult services and employment during her career.