Prior to joining YouthBuild USA, Sangeeta Tyagi was the chief operating officer for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s national office and served in several positions at the Exploration School. Tyagi has written and published extensively in the area of multicultural education, taught at the secondary level and served on the teaching faculty at Boston College, the University of Massachusetts and Roanoke College in Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. from Brandeis University and currently serves on the board of two charter school planning efforts.