Cyra Perry Dougherty

Cyra Perry Dougherty "Perry" began her career fighting for justice-rooted service programs in the public sector and made her way to Partners In Health, a global social justice organization. As a single mother and trauma survivor building her career in the social justice sector, she overextended herself and burnt out following her work in response to the earthquake that ravaged Haiti in 2010. In the years that followed, she found herself building Still Harbor, an organization committed to spiritually accompanying those engaged in social justice work, and attending seminary where she was ordained an Interspiritual Minister. In seminary, she discovered the practical tools to sustain herself and others in justice work. Perry carries a deep respect for and understanding of the practices that can connect us to our most authentic selves, to others, and to the unknown that is greater than all of us. The majority of her work is in secular spaces where people are seeking to develop authentic and collective forms of leadership, connect across differences, tap into a sense of personal or shared purpose, and co-create meaning that stimulates radical social transformation.

Perry is the founder and CEO of Rootwise Leadership, Senior Partner at Still Harbor, an Instructor of Leadership Programming at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Editor of Anchor magazine, and a writer.