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Biography
Jonathan P. Sher has been President of the North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute (NCCAI) since December 1995. Sher also serves as Vice-Chair of the Covenant with North Carolina's Children a 125+ member organization that serves as the children's lobby at the legislature. He also is a member of the NC Child Fatality Task Force, State Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and other key state level groups working to improve the well-being of all children and youth.
Before coming to NCCAI, Sher played the lead role in planning the $50 million Annenberg Rural Challence - a national school refomr initiative. He has been a faculty member at both the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State Univerisyt and has served on numberous public and private sector boards and councils. These include the Ethics Committee at UNC Hopitals in Chapel Hill and the board of directors of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.
Earlier in his career, Sher was the Education Director at the Center for Community Change and the National Rural Center (both in Washingotn, DC). He also spent a few years as athe Head of Rural Education and Community Development for the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) based in Paris.
Sher was the founder of REAL Enterprises, an organization working with high schools and community colleges actoss North Carolina (and more than a dozen other states) since 1986 to help students create their own jobs by creating their own businesses.
Organization Details: NC Child Advocacy Institute
NCCAI is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organizatoin established in 1983 to help make North Carolina an even better place to be a child and to raise a child. It is the state's "one-stop" resource for the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date statistics and other information about young North Carolinians. NCCAI's policy analysis and development work focuses on three areas: health and safety; maltreatment and protection; and juvenile justice and delinquency prevention.
(Visit www.ncchild.org for more information.)
Additional Information
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 popular publications. He has been the keynote/closing speaker at more than fifty national/international conferences.
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