GOSO is honored to have Dr. Sharon White-Harrigan, Ph.D join us as a panelist at our October 17th, Our Voices Ourselves networking breakfast.
Dr. Sharon White-Harrigan, Ph.D is a true trailblazer, visionary, and thought leader who leads with faith and hope. She is the inaugural Executive Director of the Women’s Community Justice Association (WCJA). She is dedicated to healing, safety, and driving change through engagement with systems-impacted, directly impacted, and community members. WCJA provides opportunities for New Yorkers to heal and transform at each stage of systems involvement. Sharon’s leadership spans various direct service fields such as reentry, domestic violence, homelessness, mental health, substance usage, trauma, job readiness, employment, and healing. She has also been instrumental in policy advocacy efforts, notably in partnership with leading the campaign to pass NY’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act in 2019.
Sharon wears many hats – she’s a faith leader, motivational speaker, adjunct professor, consultant, and therapist to name a few. She’s also an executive and co-founder of Women Building UP (WBU), an advisory member of the Survivor’s Justice Project (SJP), and a strategic consultant to the Women & Justice Project (WJP). Sharon draws her expertise as a licensed practitioner, and survivor of many things including 11 years of incarceration. She holds a Doctorate in Ministry, a Master’s Degree in Social Work, a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and Criminal Justice, a Thomas W. Smith Fellow, and an Associate’s Degree in liberal arts.
