Shari Sant

Shari Sant, environmental philanthropist and ocean activist, is president and founder of Code Blue Charitable Foundation, trustee of the Summit Charitable Foundation, board member of Mission Blue, board member of The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, member of the Advisory Board of Focused on Nature, member of the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund, member of the Planetary Guardians Advisory Council, and a member of The Explorers Club. A proponent of impact photography and filmmaking, Shari is also a member of the Advisory Council of National Geographics Impact Story Lab, member of Media Impact Funders, and she is the former board chair of the International League of Conservation Photographers. Shari has produced several award-winning documentary films on the ocean and environment. These films include the Emmy-award-winning Netflix documentaries “Mission Blue” and “Chasing Coral”, as well as “Anote’s Ark”, “Sharkwater Extinction”, “Ghost Fleet” and Ian Urbina’s “Outlaw Ocean” short doc series. Shari is also an executive producer on the film, “Deep Rising”, as well as “Gaucho, Gaucho” and “Battle for Laikipia”.

A graduate of New York University, she worked as senior stylist and design director for Ralph Lauren in New York for nine years, then as visual director at Esprit. In 1994, in San Francisco, she founded the environmental lifestyle store Worldware. She sold the business in 2001, and now devotes herself full-time to environmental work, with a focus on producing impact media to inspire change. As an avid diver, photographer, and ocean activist Shari travels extensively throughout the world, promoting ocean conservation and environmental awareness. She lives in upstate New York in the Catskill mountains with her dog Sunny.