In addition to her musical theatre experience, she has also competed successfully in both the Miss America and Miss USA pageant systems, winning numerous titles and scholarships. She also volunteers as the executive director for a local pageant of the Miss America Scholarship Organization.

Sherri actually began teaching dance when she was in high school at Bishop Ahr in Edison and now has 23 years of teaching under her belt. She realized her choreographing skills then and choreographs most of the Plainfield Performing Arts Center's performances as well as returning to her old alma mater to choreograph their shows today. She has also choreographed North Plainfield's nonprofit children's theatre group for the past five years.

"I always taught. When I was doing summer stock -- Dreams Girls, Chorus Line, 42nd Street--up and down the East Coast from 1982 to 1987, intermittently, I would teach in whatever town I was in. I've always been sensitive to minority dancers, because I knew they were going through what I was going through. I understood the commitment and sacrifices these minority kids made to the performing arts." 

Sherri has now expanding beyond her Plainfield home to open studios in Fanwood and Westfield,  NJ.