Sherri Wittwer is a long-time mental health advocate. She has worked in various capacities in the Utah mental health system, including as the Executive Director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, at Optum Salt Lake County as the Network Director and Director of Housing and Community Partnerships, and as a Mental Health Advocate for the Disability Law Center. Sherri has worked as an Adjunct Faculty Member for Salt Lake Community College and taught Political Science in the Prison Education Program.
Sherri is the Director of the Utah Coalition for Severe Mental Illness, the Utah Policy Director for the National Shattering Silence Coalition, and the Board President for CIT Utah.
Sherri has amaster’s degree in public administrationfrom the University of Utah.She and her husband Davidare the parents of four children.