Shareé Hurts is a storyteller, community advocate and California native.  During the day she spends her time working with community partners to create, collaborate and implement programs that benefit Arizonans in her role as Strategic Partnerships Program Manager in the Community Affairs Department.  In this role Shareé works with community partners to create, collaborate and implement programs that benefits all Arizonans.  During her 15-year tenure with APS Shareé has worked in Customer Service, Events, Marketing, and Corporate Communications.  

In addition to APS, she spent ten years in healthcare focused on Medicaid where she specialized in project management, proposal development, and organizational governance.  In 2015, Shareé began teaching as an adjunct faculty at South Mountain Community College, where she has taught in Administration of Justice and in the Storytelling Institute. 

Shareé is a storyteller who’s performed in the Arizona Storytellers Project and PBS Stories from the Stage.  She enjoys facilitating storytelling workshops for professionals and especially for youth.  She is a mother of two and a community advocate.  Her dream is to slow travel across the world, living and learning from various cultures.  

Shareé has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Arizona State University West and a master’s degree in law from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, ASU.  She currently is a member of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Phoenix Metro Chapter, serves on the Earn to Learn Board of Directors, Moonshot AZ Advisory Board and is Board Chair for FIBCO Family Services. 

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