
Sherry Boschert is an author, journalist, and activist who currently is working on a history of
Title IX
Title IX is the most commonly used name for the federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part (Title IX) of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other educa ...
. Her previous book, ''Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America''
[Boschert, S. (2006) (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers) ] helped jump-start the shift toward electric vehicles. Sherry has published more than 2,000 articles as a journalist. Her work has been published in ''The New York Times'', the ''San Francisco Examiner'', and other news outlets. She worked as a medical news reporter for Frontline Medical News from 1991-2015.
Sherry co-founded the non-profit organizations ''Plug In America'' and the ''Golden Gate Electric Vehicle Association''. A 10-year campaign she began with the
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association successfully persuaded news media companies to offer
domestic partner benefits
Benefit or benefits may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* ''Benefit'' (album), by Jethro Tull, 1970
* "Benefits" (''How I Met Your Mother''), a 2009 TV episode
* '' The Benefit'', a 2012 Egyptian action film
Businesses and organisatio ...
in the years before same-sex marriage became legal, allowing workers to extend employee benefits to their partners. As an environmentalist, she has been driving an
electric car
An electric car, battery electric car, or all-electric car is an automobile that is propelled by one or more electric motors, using only energy stored in batteries. Compared to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, electric cars are quiet ...
since 2002 and installed
solar panel
A solar cell panel, solar electric panel, photo-voltaic (PV) module, PV panel or solar panel is an assembly of photovoltaic solar cells mounted in a (usually rectangular) frame, and a neatly organised collection of PV panels is called a pho ...
s on her home's roof in 1998.
Boschert currently is working on a new book, a history of
Title IX
Title IX is the most commonly used name for the federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part (Title IX) of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other educa ...
. She blogs o
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Plug-in hybrid
A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a hybrid electric vehicle whose battery pack can be recharged by plugging a charging cable into an external electric power source, in addition to internally by its on-board internal combustion engin ...
References
External links
Video: "Plug-In Hybrids,"March 12, 2007 (Corte Madera, California: ''fora.tv'')
@sherryboschert on Twitter*
American medical writers
Women medical writers
21st-century American women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
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