About Sheri

Sheri lives in Snoqualmie, Washington with her husband of fourteen years, their two children (ages 13 and 11), and their beloved golden retriever. Sheri has a natural curiosity that leads her to seek out new experiences and information and creativity is the conduit through which she explores the world around her and shares her gifts with others. You can often find her planning and executing home renovation projects, trying out new recipes, and singing with a local adult singing group.

Sheri is deeply passionate about caring for others and is a staunch advocate for social justice and equality through activism and personal responsibility. Her desire to build stronger more equitable and thriving communities influences her volunteer work in her local schools as well as her grassroots fundraising efforts. She has raised over $11k for local and national organizations including Treehouse, The ALS Association, Seattle Humane, and more.

Sheri lives her life by the ideology that we should always leave things better than we found them. This goes for the people we interact with, the organizations we are a part of, and the ecological environments around us.

Academic Biography

As a lifelong resident of Washington State, Sheri Taylor always dreamed of attending the University of Washington. Unfortunately, she struggled in her early education which created in her the belief that she wasn’t smart enough to attend college. While many of her peers entered college, Sheri entered the workforce but held onto her dream of one day attending UW. After many years of working in customer service-oriented positions, Sheri decided to take a leap of faith and apply to a local Esthetician program. As she made her way through the program and excelled, she realized she was smarter than she originally believed. When she graduated from the esthetics program she was honored as the top student in her graduating cohort. Her career as an Esthetician was short-lived due to the 2008 recession and becoming a stay-at-home parent the following year, but her positive experience strengthened her resolve to earn a college degree.  

Sheri took her next big leap of faith when she enrolled in an Associate of Arts and Sciences program at a local community college when her children were just three years old and eleven months old. She studied during naps and after bedtime and graduated with high distinction. With two academic successes behind her, Sheri set her aims on her big dream and applied to the University of Washington. It was with great pleasure that she was admitted to the Integrated Social Sciences program in the Fall of 2015. While it has taken her many more years than expected to finish her degree at UW, she has found the program’s interdisciplinary focus to be incredibly rich and rewarding. She has grown as a student in her ability to produce high-quality academic work and has grown as an individual because of the robust social learning and unlearning she experienced through her work in the ISS program. Sheri’s tenacity and perseverance throughout the program have contributed to her success and she will graduate with highest distinction and with multiple ISS Director’s List recognitions.

Sheri graduates from the ISS program with immense pride and as a more conscientious and compassionate citizen of the world.