Ms. Sweet has set a high standard for community service with her longtime and active involvement in numerous organizations throughout Connecticut.
Ms. Sweet is currently responsible for external relations at Achievement First, a non-profit charter school management organization founded in 2003 by the leaders of Amistad Academy, a high-performing charter school in New Haven. Achievement First serves 3,700 students in New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford, Connecticut as well as New York City, and is nationally recognized for its work in closing the achievement gap for low-income inner-city children. Ms. Sweet leads Achievement First's external relations team responsible for raising millions of dollars in private philanthropy and for coordinating government and community relations.
Director and past president of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Sweet is a director of the Connecticut Humanities Council, director and past chair of the Greater New Haven Leadership Center Advisory Committee, a member of the National Steering Committee for Choate Rosemary Hall, a member of the development committee for the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, and is actively involved in the Connecticut Community Foundation, having served as chair of several committees as well as its president.
Ms. Sweet is a former trustee of Choate Rosemary Hall, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Gaylord Hospital, the United Way of Greater New Haven, the Watershed Fund, Inc., the Greater New Haven Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Fair Housing Council of Greater Waterbury and the Shubert Performing Arts Center. Her community service also included serving on committees and task forces for the following organizations: the New Haven Symphony, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, the Regional Cultural Plan of Greater New Haven, the Taft School, A Community Vision for Waterbury, the Connecticut Council of Philanthropy and the Malcolm Baldridge Scholarship Fund. She also served as co-chair of Leave a Legacy, Connecticut. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Waterbury Mayor's Citation, the YMCA's Women in Leadership Award, The Gateway Community College Hall of Fame and the Distinguished Service Award from the Greater Waterbury Jaycees.
Ms. Sweet is a recipient of the 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of New Haven.
Ms. Sweet holds a bachelor's degree from Smith College and an Executive M.B.A. from the University of New Haven.
Ms. Sweet and her husband, Stedman G. Sweet, reside in Watertown, Conn. They have two children and seven grandchildren.
