Board of Directors

Sharon Phillips

President and CEO, Multicultural Connections and Preventable Crisis Cares

Sharon Phillips is President of Multicultural Connections and Preventable Crisis Cares. Prior to recently becoming an entrepreneur, Sharon was corporate first vice president/community affairs relationship manager with WaMu; she has been in the banking industry for over 28 years. Sharon began her banking career with Savings of America in 1983, and within a few years, she worked her way through seven different positions.

Sharon continues to work with a variety of nonprofits and

not-for-profit agencies. Her vision to start her own business is solely based on two important factors that are very important to her. Multicultural Connections – Mission: Bringing Communities and Ethnicities together one Race and Community at a time. Preventable Crisis Cares – Mission and Ministry: Serve as a Local and National Spokesperson for HIV/AIDS, Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse, Youth Development, etc. (Ministry based – in Loving Memory of her late Father and Mother Rev. Ira and Betty Jenkins.). She serves on a large number of distinguished boards both locally and nationally, i.e. governmental agencies, schools, affordable housing groups and faith-based organizations.

She has been named in the Who’s Who of Executives and Professional. Her volunteerism includes speaking at conferences, conducting housing seminars, offering financial education, foreclosure prevention, teaching literacy classes and promoting HIV/AIDS awareness. She has received numerous awards and acknowledgments.

Believing in the value of family, Sharon is married to Will, of more than 19 years, and devoted to her daughter, Ebony, and granddaughters, Alexandria, Raven and the communities she serves.