Sharon Chen

Sharon Chen is an outgoing, hardworking, highly energetic Taiwanese American leader and activist. 

Sharon is self-employed and works tirelessly at multiple contract and freelance paid positions including working as a private military defense contractor by assisting active duty U.S. Armed Forces military personnel with their Mandarin speaking skills on-site at a U.S. military base, as a Mandarin speaking private tutor, as an independent film & media contractor for Rob Underhill Productions, as a freelance writer & editor, and as a social media marketing manager.
 

She is a native North Carolinian born and raised in Charlotte. She has lived in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area since 2003. She's a proud Tar Heel who graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Sociology.

Sharon is known for her values and strength of character: ethics, integrity, perseverance, resilience, and tenacity. Brimming with confidence, commitment to excellence, fervent drive to succeed, innovative thinking, and positive, can-do, go-getter attitude. She's highly motivated to learn as much as possible and communicate in a way that influences people's behavior and meets their business needs.

Well-connected politically and socially including CEOs, VPs, C-Suite executives, elected government officials, directors, leadership, management, business owners, entrepreneurs, physicians, attorneys, engineers, sales & marketing, real estate brokers, creatives, musicians, artists, innovators, and other powerful community leaders at local, state, and federal government levels, United States Department of Defense (DoD), Fortune 500 companies, and nonprofits in the Triangle, North Carolina, US, Taiwan, China, and elsewhere around the world.

Sharon is a multicultural individual with a global mindset. She loves meeting new people and giving back to the community. She spends a lot of her free time performing charity work, volunteering at her alma mater UNC-Chapel Hill, promoting business owners, and helping politicians and elected government officials at local, state, and federal levels of government.

She highly values community engagement and diversity/equity/inclusion and enjoys cultural arts such as traveling internationally, learning about different languages and cultures, attending plays/theater and comedy shows, visiting museums, and going to concerts. She's physically active, loves adventure, and spending time outdoors including ziplining and hiking. She absolutely lives life to the fullest.

The causes Sharon holds closest to her heart are ending domestic violence and poverty, promoting mental health advocacy and research, supporting secular humanism, freethought, critical thinking, science education, advocating for separation of church and state, and helping people who are overweight and obese in their journeys to lead healthier, more physically active lives.

 

Sharon is passionate about living a meaningful, purposeful life. Most importantly, she loves inspiring others, paying it forward, and having a positive impact on the community.