Sandra was appointed Deputy City Manager in October 2023. Prior to working for the City of Vancouver, Sandra Singh served in numerous senior positions in library institutions across Metro Vancouver, including her most recent seven-year tenure as Chief Librarian of the Vancouver Public Library (VPL). During her term, the VPL launched innovative new services such as the Inspiration Lab, the Sun Life Financial Musical Instrument Lending Library, the Inspiration Pass and extensive digital collections, as well as opened the City’s first Indigenous named facility, the nə́c̓aʔmatct Strathcona Branch Library. Sandra joined the VPL after serving as Director of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia where she led the Centre’s work on both rural and remote community engagement, and as an interdisciplinary centre for learning on campus.

Sandra is currently appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors. Most recently, she served as a commissioner on Canada Council for the Arts’ Public Lending Right Commission, the chair of Library and Archives Canada’s National Heritage Digitization Strategy Steering Committee, and the president of the Canadian Library Association. She also led the establishment of and was a founding board member of the Centre for Equitable Library Access which seeks to ensure people with print disabilities have access to published content.