Shared Hope International
Cheri Sanzi has a strong background in operations and management. From 2013 to 2017, they served as the Deputy Executive Director at FMGW, overseeing various departments and managing a $15M budget. Cheri then worked as the Deputy Director of Operations at the DC Department of Behavioral Health from 2017 to 2019, where they had responsibility for human resources, facilities, and IT departments, as well as a $271M budget. From 2020 to 2022, they were the Executive Director at Building Families for Children. Currently, they hold the position of Chief Operating Officer at Shared Hope International since 2023.
Cheri Sanzi has a Master's degree in Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management from Gonzaga University. Cheri also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and Psychology from West Virginia University. Additionally, Cheri Sanzi has obtained a graduate certificate in Organizational Leadership, although the institution and specific timing of this certification are not provided.
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Shared Hope International
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Shared Hope International strives to prevent the conditions that foster sex trafficking, restore victims of sex slavery, and bring justice to vulnerable women and children. We envision a world passionately opposed to sex trafficking and a community committed to restoring survivors to lives of purpose, value and choice – one life at a time. In 1998, while still a member of the U.S. Congress, Linda Smith traveled to Falkland Road in Mumbai, India—one of the worst brothel districts in the world. The hopeless faces of desperate women and children forced into prostitution compelled Linda to found Shared Hope International. SHI was established to support shelter and service creation for sex trafficking survivors using a comprehensive model for restoration. Today, Shared Hope works to Prevent sex trafficking through training, including our nationally renowned JuST Conference, and our volunteer training program, Ambassadors of Hope. Shared Hope's Restoration initiatives support partners in 4 countries who work to serve and empower survivors of sex trafficking. And finally, Shared Hope is committed to Bringing Justice to perpetrators of sex trafficking, and to get justice for survivors. Shared Hope regularly advocates at the state and federal level for strong laws to protect victims of child sex trafficking and hold perpetrators accountable. SHI's Justice initiatives include the Protected Innocence Challenge, a yearly report card and legal analyses, examining the strength of each state's laws to fight child sex trafficking, and the Stop the inJuSTice Campaign, designed to engage the public & lawmakers in improving our laws to address domestic minor sex trafficking.