Sheleah Harris

Sheleah Harris is an active candidate running for Shelby County School Board District 5 in Memphis, Tennessee.

With more than 10 years of experience, Sheleah Harris has a professional background in secondary education, local government affairs, community engagement, and marketing. Fueled by her strong desire to restructure broken images of youth in our society, she has consistently aligned herself with opportunities to implement strategies for academic, social, and economic success for others. Sheleah is driven to improve “Equity and Access for ALL students” in Shelby County. She is a servant leader who has been relentless in her pursuit to create environments that cultivate an attitude of excellence within communities and neighborhoods throughout Shelby County.

She is the founder and executive director of Living Grace, Inc. a non-profit organization that advocates and serves youth identified as homeless in Memphis. In addition, Sheleah also works as a manager of State and Local Government Affairs for a Fortune 500 company. In her role, she listens, learns and leads in the charge for innovation by collaborating with community stakeholders and legislatures to drive equity and access throughout the city.

Sheleah is running to improve the school board’s legislative agenda process, engage students, teachers and administrators in decision-making, cultivate relationships across education and government to increase collective impact, expand conversations on postsecondary pathways and career and technical education certifications and build educational environments of excellence.