Join us for this great conversation with Sheri Hall as she shares her expertise from years of experience as a certified peer specialist. Sheri Purpose Hall also shared with us one of her poems that gave Janell chills and left Heather speechless.

Sheri Hall is a goal-oriented manager, a certified peer specialist in Kansas and Missouri, and an artistic creative with over ten years of experience in non-profit operations, arts administration, advocacy, community organizing, and team development. She has extensive experience with Fortune 500 and international companies in user acceptance testing (UAT), vendor management, and business analytics.

She is the Interim CEO of Poetry for Personal Power. Sheri started with P3 as a Sponsored Artist in 2012. During her time with the agency, she has worked to solidify relationships with community partners, developed a peer support program for the organization with an agency certification curriculum; developed agency processes; and assisted in writing grants that have yielded over $750,000 in agency funds.

Artistically, Sheri Purpose Hall is a highly decorated writer and performance artist and founder of East of Red ArtHouse. She has four books: “Mélange du Femme Noir” (2019), "Black Girl Shattered" (2017); “Chosen for Both” (2015); and a workbook "Writing Wrongs: Writing to Heal" (2016) which won an award from Bike for the Brain. She is the 2020 National Spoken Word Awards Female Artist of the Year, 2019 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awardee and previous 2-year Studios Resident, and an Arts KC Inspiration Grant recipient (2017/2019). She has also represented Kansas City at the Women of the World Poetry slam (2017/18), at the National Poetry Slam (2015/16/17/18), and most recently at Rustbelt Poetry slam (2019).

For more information check out:https://www.poetryforpersonalpower.org/https://www.spokenpurpose.com/