Stephen Sharp

Stephen Sharp is a school counselor, educational consultant, and best-selling author whose work focuses on school counseling practice, mental health, technology, social justice, and race in education. He is the co-author of Lives Worth Living: Applying Zero Suicide as a Prevention Approach for Schools and the author of Redesigning Schools to Be Antiracist: A Systemic Change Approach for School Counselors and Other Leaders. He is also a co-founder of the Leadership Summit, a community-based social justice network, and has presented and written widely on school counseling, leadership, emerging career skills, mental health, and inequality.

Sharp earned a master of education in school counseling from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree from Lycoming College. He has served on the governing boards of local, state, and national school counseling organizations, was named the 2017 Pennsylvania Middle School Counselor of the Year, and is a nationally certified school suicide prevention specialist.