Sherry has dedicated her career to improving government systems for underserved communities as a senior policymaker in two presidential administrations, social entrepreneur, and public interest attorney. She is the founder and executive director of AugmentED.

Previously, she served as the head of social impact at OpenAI. In the Biden Administration, she led the division of the White House Office of Management and Budget charged with overseeing the development of policies and budgets across the federal government’s education, labor, and social services agencies. Before joining the Biden Administration, Sherry founded and led Foster America, a nonprofit dedicated to reforming the U.S. child welfare system. In the Obama Administration, she served as a domestic policy advisor to then-Vice President Biden and a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Education.

Earlier in her career, she was a senior education counsel in the U.S. Senate and a children’s civil rights attorney at the Juvenile Law Center. Sherry serves on the boards of Playlab and Accelerate. She received a master’s in philosophy from the University of Cambridge, a master’s in public policy from Harvard, and a J.D. from Columbia.