Sharie A. Blanton
Managing Director


Sharie A. Blanton currently serves as Managing Director of Conscious Connections, a social enterpise based in Miami, Florida. Formerly she served as Regional Vice President with Global Impact focused on CSR with Fortune 200 companies in south Florida. With Global Reach she coordinated select humanitarian partnerships with the U.S. Southern Command. Sharie previously served as Executive Director at St. Alban’s Child Enrichment Center, a Head Start program in Coconut Grove, FL.

Sharie is a seasoned practitioner of large scale programs in the field of international development, community redevelopment and corporate social responsibility (CSR). For seven years while working for Africare, she held various senior positions for the international development organization’s multi-million dollar operations across eight southern African countries. Before her career at Africare, Sharie was the Mid Atlantic Operations Practice Administrator with KPMG, LLP, in Washington D.C.

Sharie refocused her attention on the domestic crisis involving Katrina/Rita hurricane recovery efforts in her home state of Louisiana as the state Humanitarian Field Coordinator for Oxfam America.

A big believer in being active both globally and locally, Sharie is an active board member of Coconut Grove Cares/The Barnyard, an afterschool organization serving low income children in Coconut Grove and is a Chapter member and co-chair of the Strategic Planning Committee for Outreach at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Miami.

Her tenacity and willingness to take charge and offer alternate viewpoints has earned her respect and admiration from her peers and colleagues. Sharie strives to work on behalf of those without a voice and the less fortunate.

Sharie received degrees in Sociology and African Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also was selected as a Class V Fellow of the Miami Fellows Leadership Program, funded by the Dade Community Foundation.