Empower Erie Board Members

With an Engineering – Teaching – Administration career trajectory in roughly equal arcs, Cheryl brings laboratory, engineering, teaching, administrative, and team leadership experience to solving complex education problems. Her professional experience spanning urban schools, major corporate grants, and project management in organizations such as the Smithsonian Science Education Center fuels her desire to exercise leadership, expand her scope of partners and improve learning opportunities for all.

Cheryl Rush Dix is a Fulbright Research alumna who investigated instructional practices and school reform in Finland, a former University of Pittsburgh lecturer in program evaluation and a graduate of Gannon and Mercyhurst Universities with degrees and graduate certifications in Chemistry, Organizational Leadership, teaching, administration and superintendent’s eligibility.