Sharon was born and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Sharon is a retired nurse and has served for the last four years as a dedicated housemother at the Philomena House, a transitional home for pregnant women facing homelessness. Before this full-time volunteer position, Sharon lived in a religious community of Sisters in Christ Jesus, a recently formed missionary religious order based in Kansas City, and spent one year with the sisters abroad, helping to carry out their daily work overseas. Sharon is a fully professed lay Carmelite and a parishioner at the Church of Saint Agnes in Saint Paul.