Montclair Township Municipal Building
205 Claremont Avenue
Second Floor
Montclair, NJ 07042

Phone: 973-509-4928
Fax: 973-746-3513
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Boards, Commissions, and Committees:

Civil Rights Commission-Council Liaison
Fair Tax Valuation Task Force

Sandra Lang is a sales executive in the Applied Learning and Technolgies Division of the McGraw Hill Corporation. She previously worked as Assistant Director, Liscensing at Bell Communications Research and as a sales representative with IBM. She is a life-long resident of Montclair and is widely recognized throughout the township for her tireless involvement in community activities and her committment to civil rights.

RACE RELATIONS
During her term as chairperson of the Montclair Civil Rights Commission, “Sandy” initiated the highly successful Conversations on Race program. The program currently involves hundreds of Montclair residents of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. Using inspiration from then President Bill Clinton’s appeal for communities to organize discussions on race, she contacted the National Commission on Race Relations for helpful information. The Montclair Civil Rights Commission launched the program in 1998. Through her role on the Civil Rights Commission she has helped shape the Township's affirmative action polices on procurement and employee hiring and promotions.

RADON REMOVAL
In the mid 1980’s, Sandra was a vocal activist in Montclair’s successful fight to get the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection to clean up radon in the Nishuane Road neigbhorhood. She has had an active role in the efforts to protect and to improve neighborhood parks in Montclair.

HOUSING
Sandra currently serves on the Board of the Mathew Carter Housing Complex on Glenridge Ave. This successful and innovative approach to affordable housing in Montclair has become a statewide model of providing affordable housing to Montclair residents of moderate incomes. The Mathew Carter complex was built over 25 years ago by forming a partnership with the State of New Jersey Mortgage Finance Authority and currently provides housing for moderate income families through rent subsidies from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

COMMUNITY COMMITMENT
Sandra also serves on the board of the Montclair Neighborhood Council . She is a former Board Member of the Montclair YWCA where she was one of the first recipients of the Fifty Women You Should Know award. She is past president of the Montclair Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and past president of the Hampton University Alunmi Association, North Jersey Chapter. She is Member of the Montclair Branch NAACP and a recipient of thie NAACP’s community service award.

Ms. Lang , a Montclair High School graduate, received a Juris Doctorate Degree from Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, NJ; and her MBA Degree from Rutgers University Graduate School of Management. She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in business from Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia. Ms. Lang is single and resides on Lincoln Street and attends Union Baptist Church in Montclair.