Sharra E. Greer joined Children's Law Center as its first policy director in 2008. Sharra brings extensive policy experience with her to this new position as she developed the policy department at Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN). In addition to creating and supervising that policy department, she supervised the group’s successful legal services and impact litigation efforts. Sharra began her legal services work while at Rutgers Law School, when she worked at Camden Regional Legal Services. After law school, She was an associate with the firm of Weissman & Mintz, specializing in plaintiffs’ side employment discrimination and labor law. Sharra left Weissman & Mintz to serve as a staff attorney with the National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP). There, Ms. Greer worked on cases before the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and represented plaintiffs’ in two class actions through NVLSP’s Agent Orange Resource Center. Recently, Sharra helped design and create Lawyers Serving Warriors, a program which provides pro bono legal services for returning veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Sharra graduated with honors from Rutgers in 1994 and received her BA from the University of Washington.