Sheri Dew is a farm girl from Kansas and a graduate of Brigham Young University. She is a 40-year veteran of the publishing industry and has authored a number of best-selling books, including the biographies of two presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—President Gordon B. Hinckley and President Ezra Taft Benson, as well as Insights from a Prophet’s Life: Russell M. Nelson. Her most recent book is titled Prophets See Around Corners.

Sheri served as second counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society from 1997 – 2002. She is currently the executive vice president and chief content officer of Deseret Management Corporation.

Sheri is a former member of the Marriott School National Advisory Board, a recipient of a medal of honor from the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge, and has spoken at international conclaves such as the World Congress of Families. In March 2003 the White House appointed her as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations.