July 13, 2020
Environmental philanthropist and ocean activist Shari Sant is President and Founder of Code Blue Charitable Foundation, Secretary/Trustee of the Summit Charitable Foundation, founding board member of the Sylvia Earle Alliance, and Vice President of Seacology. Shari is also a member of the Ocean Unite and Blue Ocean Film Festival Advisory Boards, and the World Wildlife Fund’s National Council. As a member of the Smithsonian Ocean Initiative Advisory Council, Shari helped create the Sant Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History. A proponent of impact photography and filmmaking, Shari is also Executive Producer of the Netflix documentary “Mission Blue”, and Associate Producer of “Chasing Coral” on Netflix. She is also Executive Producer on “Sharkwater Extinction”, “Ghost Fleet”, and “Anote’s Ark,” currently in production.
A graduate of NYU, Shari worked as Senior Stylist and Design Director for Ralph Lauren in New York for nine years, then as Visual Director at Esprit. She later founded the environmental lifestyle store, Worldware, in San Francisco in 1994. She sold the business in 2001, and now devotes herself full-time to environmental work, with a focus on producing impact media to inspire change.
An avid diver, photographer and ocean activist, Shari travels extensively throughout the world promoting ocean conservation and environmental awareness. She is married to Dan Plummer and lives in Malibu and in the Catskill mountains of New York.