About Sharon K. Sobotta


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Sharon K. Sobotta is a journalist, an educator and a world traveler. She began traveling the world at the age of 17, after receiving a scholarship from a soy sauce company that allowed her to leave Wisconsin and go to Japan, and she never looked back. Sharon takes pride in traveling the world as a non-tourist and can most often be found volunteering, interviewing people, spending time in off-the-beaten path places that locals frequent and, increasingly, at the weddings of her commitment-prone friends. When she is not traveling and interviewing people, Sharon splits her time between directing the Women's Resource Center at Saint Mary's College of California, writing for a number of publications and reporting for Pacifica radio news. 

Sharon believes that everyone has a story worth sharing, and her mission is to give voice to people from every walk of life. From the everyday struggles that men and women experience with relationships and love, to the societal impact of xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism and sexism, there is no issue Sharon is unwilling to take on as a journalist. In her first book, The Journey of Life: 100 Lessons from Around the World, Sharon weaves the human experience into a collection of universally applicable lessons, allowing wealthy entrepreneurs, successful musicians and even homeless people to transcend boundaries to a place of commonality. In Sharon's next book project, she is focusing on folks who have taken the unpaved path of life, either in hopes of pursuing a dream or due to the circumstances of life. Sharon uses multiple forms of media and creative expression to inspire people to think outside of the box about the multiple realities of life. She facilitates intergenerational, intercultural writing workshops to give people a voice for sharing their stories and teaches multiple genres of dance as a platform for experiencing culture. 

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