Sharon Kennedy Vickers is a technology leader with nearly three decades of experience dedicated to harnessing technology for societal betterment. Driven by a life’s purpose to help people gain access to the resources they need to fulfill their potential, Sharon believes that technology can create shared abundance and free people to contribute at higher levels to society. She is committed to leveraging innovative solutions that empower individuals and communities, ensuring technology serves as a catalyst for positive change and collective prosperity.
Sharon is the CEO of Software for Good, an agency that builds technology that enables companies, nonprofits, and government agencies to solve some of the world’s toughest problems by understanding the human needs of the people and communities it will touch.
Prior to this role, Sharon was appointed by Mayor Melvin Carter to serve residents in the City of Saint Paul and the national civic technology community, as Chief Information Officer (CIO). As CIO, she was responsible for ensuring the city used data and technology to create a more welcoming, just, and inclusive Saint Paul.
She is a champion for tech equity and an inclusive digital economy. Sharon is co-founder of Techquity.MN, Code Switch, a civic hackathon. Sharon is also a fourth-generation farmer. She and her eleven siblings own and operate HK Farm, an 1100-acre homestead in Tattnall and Candler counties Georgia. They grow and make healing hemp products and raise beef cattle; and inspire, educate and empower people to love and respect the land and animals.
Sharon holds a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies and Political Science from the University of Georgia, and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Clayton State University.
