Sonya Sharififard

Faculty

Education Division, Graduate School of Education and Psychology

Biography

Dr. Sonya Sharififard (she/her) serves on the Board of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and is a faculty member at Pepperdine University. Her current research explores leadership development and global food systems, a project she completed as part of the AMPLIFY fellowship program with the Pacific Council. Previously, Dr. Sharififard served as a postdoctoral research fellow and Managing Editor of The Scholarship without Borders Journal at Pepperdine University and Lecturer at California State University, Sacramento.

Dr. Sharififard has co-authored book chapters in New Horizons in Positive Leadership and Change (Springer 2020) and Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment (Palgrave 2018). She has presented at major international conferences and serves on the review panel of global institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Academy of Management (AOM), and the International Leadership Association (ILA). Dr. Sharififard holds a PhD in Global Leadership from Pepperdine University and is fluent in Farsi.

Education

PhD, Pepperdine University GSEP