Sherry Boschert is a reporter and co-founder of the non-profit organization Plug In America and of the San Francisco Electric Vehicle Association. She is the author of the book Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge America. She is a senior reporter and San Francisco bureau chief of the International Medical News Group, a division of Elsevier

Elsevier

Elsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....

, where she has worked since 1991. She has published more than 2,000 articles as a journalist. She has won journalism awards from the American Academy of Dermatology

American Academy of Dermatology

The American Academy of Dermatology is the largest organization of dermatologists in the world. It was founded in 1938 and represents 17,000 dermatologists in the United States, Canada, and around the world. The Academy grants Fellowships and Associate Memberships, as well as Fellowships for...

, the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month program, and the New York Press Association.

A 10-year campaign she began with the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association

National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association

The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association is an American professional association dedicated to unbiased coverage of gay/lesbian issues in the media...

 successfully persuaded news media companies to offer domestic partner

Domestic partnership

A domestic partnership is a legal or personal relationship between two individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are neither joined by marriage nor a civil union...

 benefits

Employee benefit

Employee benefits and benefits in kind are various non-wage compensations provided to employees in addition to their normal wages or salaries...

. As an environmentalist, she has been driving an electric car

Electric car

An electric car is an automobile which is propelled by electric motor, using electrical energy stored in batteries or another energy storage device. Electric cars were popular in the late-19th century and early 20th century, until advances in internal combustion engine technology and mass...

 since 2002 and installed solar panel

Photovoltaic module

A solar panel is a packaged, connected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells...

s on her home's roof in 1998.

External links

• SherryBoschert.com
• Video: "Plug-In Hybrids," March 12, 2007 (Corte Madera, California: fora.tv)
• http://twitter.com/SherryBoschert