Sherrie S. is a researcher and a designer driving social and behavioral change.
Sherrie offers fresh perspectives and exercises to challenge existing perceptions about innovation and social responsibilities, reexamine systemic patterns, processes and team dynamics, and guide communities and organizations toward transformations that align with their vision—blending trauma-informed design, behavior insights, and visual storytelling since 2021.

A Sisterhood upon an Unspoken Health Anxiety
Since COVID-19 swept through the U.S., Sherrie found a new way to bind with her bloodline, via sexual health anxieties and common lived history of women, who are also ghosting between the middle ground between Chinese and American culture…
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"Letting people talk doesn’t require a splendid, miraculous question."
From interviews to field work to crisis counseling, Sherrie tried to understand one thing: what kind of questions elicit a response and else not. Yet she has unwittingly delved deeper into the nature of empathy and the power structures ingrained in research practices.
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