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Dr Jonathan Sher |
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Dr. Sher currently is the Director of Research, Policy and Practice at Children in Scotland (CiS). CiS is a national non-profit that has over 350 member organizations across Scotland and deals with all issues affecting children and young people. Visit www.childreninscotland.org.uk.
Jonathan was the President of the North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute (NCCAI) between 1995 and 2004. He stayed on as a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Leandro Advocacy Project (with Prof. Jack Boger of the UNC Law School’s Center for Civil Rights).
Sher also served for several years as the founding Vice-Chair of the Covenant with North Carolina's Children -- a public policy coalition of 150 organizations representing approximately one-half million members across NC that has become the children's lobby at the state level. He was a longstanding leader within the NC Child Fatality Task Force, NC Bar Association’s Section on Juvenile Justice and Children’s Rights, as well as other key state groups improving the well-being of all children and youth.
Before coming to NCCAI, Sher played the lead role in planning the $50 million Annenberg Rural Challenge -- a national school reform initiative. For several years, he was a faculty member at both the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University (including Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at NCSU’s College of Education and Psychology). Sher has served on numerous public and private sector boards and councils -- including the Ethics Committee at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Sher was the founder of REAL Enterprises, an organization working with high schools and community colleges across North Carolina (and more than a dozen other states) since 1986 to help rural students create their own jobs by creating their own businesses. Sher also was the Education Director at the Center for Community Change and the National Rural Center (both in Washington, DC). He also spent a few years as the head of international projects on rural education and community development for CERI/OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) based in Paris.
Sher received his master's degree and doctorate from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, with an emphasis on rural development, education planning and social policy. He was the youngest person ever to receive these degrees from HGSE. Sher is the author/editor of two books, numerous published reports and dozens of articles/chapters in professional, academic and popular publications. He has been the keynote/closing speaker at more than fifty national or international conferences.
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