Sharon Slayton is a freelance writer, speaker, and community program development specialist who lives in the mountains above Santa Cruz, California. Former Clinical Systems National Liaison, Project Manager and Communications Consultant on Local, State, and National healthcare initiatives, and an information technology/business systems planning, integration and implementation specialist, today Sharon is a Ph.D. student at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she expects to complete the transformative consciousness program in mid 2020.