Peggie D Sherry

Peggie D. Sherry

CEO/Founder Faces of Courage Foundation

Coming from Palm Beach, FL, Peggie D. Sherry has lived in the Tampa Bay area since 1975. Her first career was in the family business as a banker for eighteen years. After leaving banking, she became an Independent Television Producer/Editor for PBS, earning three coveted Telly Awards. Then in 1999, she began her work with cancer patients. Ms. Sherry founded the Faces of Courage Foundation in January 2004 with an inheritance left by her parents.

Ms. Sherry serves and has served (since 2005) on numerous committees and research grants at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of South Florida and has several published manuscripts and abstracts. Since 2019, Ms. Sherry has been a member of the NCI External Board of Directors at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. In addition, she has been a grant reviewer for the Department of Defense, Susan G. Komen, and Hillsborough Education Foundation.

Ms. Sherry has been honored with many awards, most notably: Breast Cancer Wellness Magazine’s Advocate of the Year; Aetna Foundation’s Voices of Health Award; Royal Neighbors Insurance Company’s Nation of Neighbors Award; Tampa Bay Buccaneers Football Team’s Distinguished Breast Cancer Survivor; eBay’s Grand Prize Winner “Every Mom’s a Hero” International contest; NASA Honoree for Breast Cancer Survivors; Yoplait Yogurt National Champion; American Red Cross’ Good Neighbor Award; WEDU’s (PBS TV) Speaking of Women’s Health Award; Florida State Daughters of the American Revolution FL State Community Service Award; and FOX News Hometown Hero, among others.

Community Service has always been a passion for Ms. Sherry. She is the Founder of the Gasparilla Krewe of Agustina de Aragon (founded in 1997), the Krewe of Agustina Scholarship Fund (1998), and KOA Full Heart Foundation (2020). A member of Daughters of the American Revolution since 1974, Ms. Sherry has served as an Officer and Chairman on the local, state, and national levels. She is also active in her Daughters of American Colonists chapter as a long-standing officer and chapter chairman. In addition, Ms. Sherry has served over eighteen years as a Rotary’s Camp FL Board Member, Hillsborough County Grants Collaborative Executive Board Member since 2008, and Beth Waters Friendship Foundation Board of Directors since 2006, along with other nonprofit board positions.

As a spokesperson, motivational speaker, author, and advocate, Ms. Sherry has appeared/quoted NBC Dateline, Boston Globe, USA Today, Washington Post, Miami Herald, PBS specials, Huffington Post, Heal Magazine, DuPont Registry Magazine, In the Field, Breast Cancer Wellness Magazine (cover photo/story), Healthy Cells Magazine (cover photo/story); along with over 100 local TV/Radio/Print media interviews.