Education & Experience

Sherry earned her Master of Social Work degree with a specialization in Military Social Work in 2013 from the University of Southern California, where she completed her internship at a VA Grant & Per Diem program in Hollywood, CA, serving Post-9/11 combat homeless veterans. She is a seasonal Psychology Instructor at UC Berkeley and currently directs a refugee resettlement program, implementing trauma-informed care across California with a focus on services for Arabic-, Pashto-, Dari-, and Russian-speaking communities. Sherry has extensive experience in designing training curricula for direct-service staff on providing trauma-informed care to refugees, adult children of immigrants, veterans, and disaster survivors. She received trauma training from the National Center for PTSD and the EMDR Trauma Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Program.