• Portrait of Zakaria SharifZakaria Sharif

    Zakaria Sharif joined the Erie School Board in January 2023, bringing with him a wealth of experience in business management and operations. He now serves as a public educator with the Erie County Department of Health, a position in which he helped lead community outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic. During that period Sharif also helped lead and facilitate phone calls that brought minority community leaders, health care systems and physicians to the table around a common cause.

    Serving on the School Board has enabled him to serve the community in a different, though very powerful, way. 

    "I want to continue to represent the students who don't have voices and the students as a whole," he said," Sharif told the Erie Times-News.