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Sharon Wise identifies herself as a “surviving spirit” after enduring and overcoming child abuse, homelessness, prostitution, incarceration and mental health issues in her lifetime.

The now award-winning Ward 8 filmmaker, artist, motivational speaker, and community advocate has come full circle and is a living example of inspiration and recovery to all she encounters on her daily job as a civil servant, volunteering as a solar panel installer three to five times a year, or on her various travels around the region, country, and globe selling her art and jewelry.

“My personality and fortitude come from living on the streets, having to give my children away to foster care, and coming from the bad homelife that I had,” said Wise, now fifty-nine, who was born in Chicago but has lived in DC for 32 years and now calls Naylor Road in Southeast home.