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Sherri Crawford is the president of Project Light. She has always had a heart for the poor and underprivileged. Before becoming a lawyer, Sherri loved volunteering by teaching English as a Second Language to El Salvadorian refugees seeking U. S. citizenship. In 1996, Sherri started her career as a corporate intellectual property lawyer for software companies in Silicon Valley, and it was during this time that she intensified her volunteer involvement with under-privileged children and became a reading tutor for homeless children. Simultaneously, Sherri began seeking God as to how she could use her skill-set as a software lawyer to serve Him. In 2000, Sherri took an opportunity to volunteer her time at the International Justice Mission and worked as a lawyer in Kenya, Africa. While visiting a school in the slums of Nairobi, she saw impoverished children: an image that she could not forget upon her return to the U.S., and one that would change her life forever. Shortly after this experience, in 2001, Sherri reunited with her father Jim Crawford. Unbeknownst to Sherri, her father had founded Project Light a non-profit organization that partners with Faith-Based and Community based organizations to the Project Light Tutoring Program and Software that meets literacy, ESL and GED needs world-wide. She knew at once that she wanted to be a part of this and was asked by her father to join the Board of Directors in 2002 as the Interim Chairman of the Board, which she gladly accepted. In 2004, Sherri relocated to Virginia to volunteer her time at Project Light as the acting Director of Operations and later as the President of the Ministry. Today Sherri is still actively practicing corporate law which gives her the opportunity to continue volunteering as the President of Project Light. Sherri earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her J.D., from Santa Clara University School of Law. At Santa Clara University she served as the president of the Public Interest Law Foundation, was involved in the Christian Law Society, and was a comments editor for the schoolÙs Computer & High Technology Law Journal. Sherri also attended Oxford University, where she studied Jurisprudence. | 