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Sheryl’s love for balancing the books began when she was twelve and ran a lemonade stand in the Emigrant Basin Wilderness Area near Yosemite National Park. With limited running water and no electricity, she and her siblings netted $500 per summer (the equivalent of about $3,500 in 2016 dollars). She completed her math degree at the University of the Pacific, and obtained her Master’s Degree in Operations Research from the School of Engineering at Stanford University. She paid her way through college by raising golden retriever puppies and working simultaneously for the university as a teaching assistant in statistics, teaching introductory calculus in Spanish, and as a tour guide, while working outside the university as a full-time bank teller and proof machine operator.

Sheryl began her career in Operations Research with the Computer Services Division of Chevron, San Francisco, before moving to Caracas, Venezuela, where she was in charge of strategic planning for the Latin American/Caribbean Division of Bank of America, preparing and overseeing annual plans for each country in the Division. After living in Venezuela, Argentina and Italy, she relocated to Connecticut to accept a position working in financial derivatives. She saw the writing on the wall at AIG Financial Products a decade before the 2008 crash, and decided to devote herself instead to being a full-time mother to her two sons, Rolando Andrés and David Rafael.

As a volunteer, Sheryl served on the Board of Directors and as treasurer for the 501(c)3 Music Theatre of Connecticut, where she oversaw fundraising activities of $150,000 per year, while also acting as parent producer, volunteer coordinator, and manager of contact information. For Fairfield Country Day School, she produced the annual parent handbook and directory, and co-chaired a section of annual fundraising. After three decades immersed in these cultural activities, she made a dramatic change in her life by marrying an Owatonnan attorney who shares her interest in gardening, passion for outdoor activities, and mostly, a shared love of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and its community.