👏We’re thrilled to share that our Silicon Valley Ice Sports Podcast Launch Episode will feature guest Sharon Cohen, Founder of Figure Skating in Harlem!! ⛸️ 💕
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🌟 Sharon Cohen founded Figure Skating in Harlem in 1997, seven years after meeting a group of East Harlem girls who were eager to learn how to ice skate. Having grown up in the world of competitive skating, Sharon jumped at the opportunity to create the first and only organization for girls of color that combines the power of education with access to the grace and discipline of figure skating to promote girls’ holistic youth development.
🥇 Skating since the time she was 8 years old growing up in Delaware, Cohen was a United States Figure Skating (USFS) double gold test medalist in figures and freestyle, and a gold level ice dancer. She went on to graduate from Brown University with a B.A. in political science, then moved to New York City to work at CBS News, and later pursued a Master’s of Fine Arts at New York University in Film Directing and Writing. While producing several award winning short films and documentaries, Cohen worked simultaneously to establish Figure Skating in Harlem as a non-profit education, leadership and sport-based organization that serves girls from under-resourced communities. In 2017, the organization took its successful model to Detroit, as the first chapter in a planned national expansion.
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