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Shannon Farley (Executive Director)
shannon@sparksf.org
Shannon is the Executive Director of Spark. Since its
founding in 2004, Spark has engaged over 5,000 young professionals in the Bay
Area in education, volunteerism and activism as well as raised over $350,000 for
grassroots women's organizations in the Bay Area and around the world. As its
first Executive Director, Shannon is tasked with taking Spark to the next level.
She is increasing programming and fundraising goals to strengthen Spark's local
and global positioning.
Prior to joining Spark, Shannon helped start the W. Haywood Burns Institute,
which works to protect and improve the lives of youth of color, poor children
and their communities by ensuring fairness and equity throughout all public and
private youth serving systems. She previously worked for the Youth Law Center
where she provided legal services for youth in the child welfare and juvenile
justice systems. Shannon has eleven years of experience working in the fields of
health and justice for women and girls. She has worked at domestic violence
shelters, rape crisis centers, and health education forums. In 2004, she was
chosen to be a Women's Policy Institute Fellow for the Women's Foundation of
California and in 2009, she was received the New Leader�s Council �Top 40 under
40 Award. Shannon holds a BA in American Studies from Georgetown University and
an MS in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics.
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