Shari Dunn is a polymath, an accomplished journalist, former attorney, news anchor, CEO, and university professor.

Shari brings cross-sector experience from the law, media, education, and social enterprise to create several new “takes” on issues such as “Imposter Syndrome” and original scholarship, giving voice to what has for too long had no name, Competency Checking.

Born and raised in a working-class, blue-collar, African-American neighborhood in one of the most segregated cities in the nation, Milwaukee, WI. Growing up, she witnessed firsthand the devastating impact of racial discrimination on housing, health care, and employment for Black people. As part of the second wave of students bused to suburban schools, Shari understood that others had fought and died for her right to access education and opportunity. Her parents and family instilled in her the knowledge that the struggle for Civil Rights and affirmative action had created programs like the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), which helped her and many other first-generation college students access higher education—not because they were unqualified, but because of historical inequities that provided an opportunity advantage to white people.

Among the most meaningful highlights of her career was the opportunity to interview and thank civil rights icons Harry Belafonte and Julian Bond. These conversations were profound moments where Shari felt it was her turn to pick up the baton and move the country forward.

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