Rev. Sharon Risher
Speaker & Author, Sharon Risher Speaks; National Volunteer, Everytown for Gun Safety; Emanuel AME Church shooting survivor
2025
Rev. Sharon Risher, from Charleston, SC, is a sought after respected preacher, public communicator passionate about social justice. She was catapulted into the limelight, after her beloved Mother, 2 cousins and a childhood friend was killed in the Emanuel AME Church, in Charleston, SC, June 17th, 2015. With experience in leadership, chaplaincy, and authorship (For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness After the Charleston Massacre, 2019), Sharon energizes and enlightens every space she enters. She is known for linking faith to action, inspiring others to think big and act with purpose, as a National Spokesperson for MOMS Demand Action for Gun Safety/Everytown Survivor Network, past Chair of the Board for one of the largest grassroots organizations to abolish the death penalty, Death Penalty Action.
At the Summit
The Summit unites the public and private sectors, domestic and international, against hate and extremism. Researchers, activists, lawyers, technology experts, political leaders, and more come together, each bringing their unique tools to the fight. Important relationships that were established at the Summit in 2021 have carried forward into working groups with concrete deliverables for 2022 and beyond.
