Sherry Main serves as the interim vice chancellor for strategic communications and public affairs at UC Irvine. She leads enterprise-wide communications functions, including marketing, advertising, executive and digital communications, media, and community and government relations. Prior to UCI, Sherry served as UC Santa Cruz’s chief communications and marketing officer.

Sherry has served in a number of staff leadership roles in her tenure at the University of California. In 2017 she was appointed by then UC President Janet Napolitano to serve a two-year term as staff advisor to the UC Board of Regents, having direct input into the board’s deliberations impacting UC’s more than 200,000 staff employees. 

She is a board member of The CLUB Silicon Valley; an advisory forum member of Executive Women’s Forum International; and an executive member of HiPower/UPWARD Women. Among her honors, she received the 2018 Women of Influence award from the Silicon Valley Business Journal and the 2016 International Grand Gold-Special Events award from CASE. Sherry earned a bachelor’s degree from UC Davis, an MBA from UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business, and a certificate in crisis leadership from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.