# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jane-o-meara-sanders
# Generated: 2026-09-06T22:13:54.671Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jane-o-meara-sanders"
name: "Jane O'Meara Sanders"
slug: "jane-o-meara-sanders"
description: "Mary Jane Sanders is an American social worker, college administrator, activist, and political strategist. She was provost and interim president of Goddard College from 1996 to 1997 and president of Burlington College from 2004 to 2011. In 2017, Sanders founded the think tank The Sanders Institute. She has been married to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders since 1988. She has also served as first lady of Burlington, Vermont during her second husband's term as mayor."
tagline: "American social worker and college president"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jane_Sanders_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1950-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.69
  momentum:             2.895302975977053
  historical:           5.984562666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/janeosanders"
    handle:    "janeosanders"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-o-meara-sanders-a4a6741b/"
    handle:    "jane-o-meara-sanders-a4a6741b"
sources:
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    title: "جین اومرا دریسکول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_O%E2%80%99Meara_Sanders"
    title: "Jane O’Meara Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Sanders"
    title: "Jane Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "జేన్ సాండర్స్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_O'Meara_Sanders"
    title: "Jane O'Meara Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Sanders"
    title: "Jane Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20165782"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump