Shari Davis (they/she) serves as a Co-Executive Director at the Center for Economic Democracy. They are a NYT visionary leader who brings expertise as an executive leader, community organizer and facilitator with 15 years of service in local government and ten years of leadership in national non-profits.

Shari advises and supports other leaders of color in creating and exploring shared leadership models. During her time as Co-Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project, Shari worked with local government staff and community organizers on building deep decision making processes rooted in equity and people power.

Shari also creates experiential and world-building workshops facilitated around the United States that engage BIPOC communities in radical imagination using art and illustration, including comic books, to collectively envision an equitable, shared and safe future.

Shari is a graduate of Boston University’s Sargent College for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and holds a master’s degree in anatomy and physiology. You can learn more about Shari’s work by viewing their TED talk or following their work as a 2019 Obama Fellow or 2022 Emerson Collective Fellow.