I had the great opportunity to work as the associate dean for arts and humanities with Sharon. Indeed, my colleague Donna Paulnock, AD for the biological sciences and I always saw Sharon as the lead singer of our girl group: Sharon and the Deanettes. Sharon had such a wonderful way of thinking through and about organizations to find solutions and resolutions. I learned so much from her about how systems work have thought of her so often of late as we struggle with the systemic and institutional nature of racism and other social challenges.