Sharmin serves as our Racial Equity Collective Director. She brings with her experience in government, non-profit and corporate environments. After earning a degree in Finance at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Sharmin (pronounced shar-meen) worked as a Pricing Leader at GE Healthcare where she helped expand rural healthcare in Bangladesh. In 2016, she broke barriers by becoming the first Asian American, non-Christian, and also first immigrant to serve on Hanover Park’s City Council. There, she drafted the diversity, equity, and inclusion ordinance, championed language access, and focused on public-private partnerships to better serve the community. As vice chair of the National League of Cities Human Development Committee, she gave a Capitol Hill Briefing to emphasize local economic impact of immigrants. Sharmin continues to work as a community leader as part of School District U46’s United U-46 Campaign developing recommendations on equitable education. She serves as an advisor to suburban newspaper, Daily Herald’s Editorial Board and she is also an Associate Director at Volunteers Association for Bangladesh focusing on increasing access to quality rural education.
