Sharon Wright

City of St. Petersburg
Sustainability and Resiliency Director

Sharon is the Sustainability & Resiliency Director for the City of St. Petersburg.  She is responsible for delivering Mayor Kriseman’s sustainability priorities by working across city departments and with citizens, businesses, and community partners to establish a community-wide sustainability program.  Sharon’s work up to now has taken her across disciplines and across the country from doing GIS and planning work on combined sewer overflows in the City of Atlanta, to community plans and environmental impact statements across the west coast.  Based in Seattle, Sharon worked on large infrastructure projects including bridges, transit centers, and solid waste facilities in Washington, Alaska and Montana.  In 2009, Sharon earned her LEED AP BD+C, and has since continually increased green building and sustainability into her work. Sharon’s current work includes collaborating on a multitude of sustainability programs as well as participating as an internal city team advisor for sustainability, resiliency and green certifications, including Envision, on an array of building and infrastructure projects. She currently is a member of the Envision Review Board for the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI).  Sharon has a B.S. Soil and Water Science – Forestry, Wetlands, Agriculture from the University of Florida and an M.S. City and Regional Planning from Georgia Institute of Technology.  Before coming to the city in 2014, Sharon worked as a Community & Environmental Planner at an engineering and architecture firm for almost 14 years.