13 Facts About Frank Sharry

Frank Sharry is the founder and executive director of America's Voice, a liberal immigration reform group.

Frank Sharry was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut, by an Italian-American mother and an Irish-American father.

Frank Sharry was captain of the soccer team during his junior and senior year, served as a resident advisor his senior year and was active in student protest efforts regarding the role of private and selective eating clubs in college life and university investments in firms operating in a South Africa ruled by apartheid.

Frank Sharry left to work for the American Council for Nationalities Service in Singapore and Indonesia to assist with the resettlement of boat refugees fleeing war-torn Vietnam in search of temporary safe haven in Indonesia.

Frank Sharry returned to the United States in 1980 and worked for ACNS in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, helping to resettle Cuban refugees who arrived from the Cuban Port of Mariel.

Frank Sharry next moved to the ACNS main office in New York to direct a special nationwide resettlement program for Cuban Refugees.

Frank Sharry then was promoted to oversee the nationwide resettlement program in 27 cities for refugees from Southeast Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.

In 1986, Frank Sharry left ACNS and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he became the executive director of Centro Presente, a local organization that worked with Central Americans who had fled civil war and human rights violations in their countries of origin in order to seek safe haven in the greater Boston area.

In 2008, Frank Sharry left the National Immigration Forum to become the founder and executive director of America's Voice, an organization that serves as the communications arm of the immigration reform movement.

Frank Sharry has been featured in the documentary film series, How Democracy Works Now, by filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini.

Frank Sharry is featured in the documentary film entitled Last Best Chance [1], Story Twelve of the series How Democracy Work Now, from filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini.

Frank Sharry appeared in The Game Is On, Story One in the series How Democracy Works Now.

Frank Sharry is shown in Iowa giving a training seminar for media.