Sandra C.A. Ferguson is a leading member of the non-governmental development /civil society sector in Grenada with which she has been associated over the last twenty-five years.  Ms. Ferguson has a special interest in citizenship and governance and was trained to conduct civic education on citizens and governance in a Regional Training of Trainers programme sponsored by the Commonwealth Foundation.   She was later a member of the Advisory Body which provided support to the revision of the Commonwealth Foundation’s Citizens Education Action Learning Guide in 2012.

She attended the St. John’s Christian Secondary School, popularly known as Schaper’s and pursued Advanced Level Studies at the Grenada Boys Secondary School.

She is a graduate of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of the West Indies; pursued post-graduate studies in Caribbean Agricultural Development at the Universite Antilles- Guyane, Guadeloupe and in Development Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands.