Resume

SHERRY BOSCHERT

Lebanon, N.H. / @sherryboschert / www.sherryboschert.com

Literary Agent: Gail Ross and Dara Kaye at the Ross Yoon Agency

Work

2015-present: Self-employed author, journalist, independent scholar, and blogger, currently writing a history of Title IX and blogging at “37 Words” (www.sherryboschert.com)

1991-2014: San Francisco Bureau Chief, MDedge.com (formerly International Medical News Group), filing medical news reports in multimedia formats

1990-1991: Freelance reporter for The New York Times and on-staff editor for Times-Beacon Newspapers, Stony Brook, N.Y.

Prior to 1991: Reporter, The Staten Island Advance daily newspaper, Staten Island, N.Y. Also editor, reporter, or copy editor at various newspapers and magazines.

Juried Workshops & Residencies

February 2020 – Hypatia in the Woods residency

September-October 2019 – Mesa Refuge residency

May 2019 – LitCamp writing workshop participant

March-April, 2019 – Djerassi Resident Artists Program residency

Books, Articles, & Videos:

37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination (The New Press, March 8, 2022).

Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America (New Society Publishers, 2006). Praise: “This is an important book. As a historian I was intrigued by the history; as a reader I was charmed by the writing; as a citizen I was outraged by the auto industry’s duplicity…” — Historian Martin J. Sherwin, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

“After 43 years of Title IX, women find their voice,” op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, online Nov. 17, 2015; in print Nov. 19, 2015, page A12.

I’ve published more than 2,000 articles and many dozens of video reports as a journalist, primarily for Frontline Medical News, where I worked for 23 years before pivoting to my current book project. Search online for “Sherry Boschert medical news,” or see lists of my non-medical articles and media appearances here and my YouTube channel here.

Speaking & Media

March 31-April 3, 2022 – “Unpacking the Celebratory Narrative of Title IX,” confirmed panel presentation at the Organization of American Historians session annual meeting in a session entitled, “Conflict and Collaboration in the Struggle against Sex Discrimination in Education: Title IX Turns Fifty.”

February 7, 2022 – Taught online class on “Title IX vs. Sex Discrimination in Education” for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth.

January 7, 2022 – “Intersectional Discrimination in the Successes or Failures of Title IX,” confirmed presentation at the American Historical Association annual meeting, New Orleans, in a panel on “Fifty Years of Title IX: Evolutions in the Struggle Against Sex Discrimination in Education.”

September 9, 2021 – Speaker and moderator for “History Matters” panel at the annual meeting of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, online.

November 14-17, 2019 – “The Two-faced State and Title IX,” National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting, San Francisco.

June 2019 – “Intersectional Activism Under Title IX,” National Coalition of Independent Scholars annual meeting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Aug. 4, 2018 – “Uppity Women, Nasty Women: From Title IX to #MeToo in Fresno, Calif.,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association annual meeting, Santa Clara, Calif.

I’ve given dozens of presentations and media interviews in support of my first book, Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America. Presentation sites include:

San Francisco Commonwealth Club, 2016 and 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2008
University of California, Berkeley, October and May 2007
Google Headquarters, Mountain View, Calif., June 2007
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, April 2007
Florida Atlantic University, February 2007
University of Central Florida, January 2007
See dozens more listed here.

See lists of my media appearances at these links for online, TV, radio, and print.

Blog: I’m chronicling Title IX history in “37 Words.”

Awards and Honors

2011 Plug In America Certificate of Recognition

2005 Special Recognition, Women’s Caucus, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists

2005, Special Recognition, Northern California Chapter, NLGJA

2003 American Academy of Dermatology Gold Triangle Award for news reporting

2001 Society of Professional Journalists Award for Distinguished Service

2001 NLGJA Distinguished Service Award

1997 Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Media Visibility Award

1995 National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Profiles in Progress Award

1988 New York Press Association First Place Award for General Excellence, Division 3

Education

B.A. in English and Anthropology, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.

Miscellaneous

Memberships: American Historical Association; Organization of American Historians; National Coalition of Independent Scholars; NLGJA; Plug In America; Electric Auto Association; Sierra Club.