Sherrie Murphy joined the Board of the United Nations Association of New York in 1999 and has attended almost every Board meeting and numerous programs during the past 22 years. She was Chair of the Program Committee in 2007 and 2008. She received the Distinguished Service Award from UNA-NYC in 2011. Sherrie had achieved a successful career in book publishing, including 20 years as VP Director of Publicity, Promotion and Advertising for Rizzoli International Publications, promoting 70 new books a year, and for Rizzoli Bookstores, with 12 stores nationwide. She organized author publicity and new bookstore openings with receptions ranging from 100 guests to more than 1200.  She promoted outstanding Rizzoli books in the fine arts, such as Pierre Schneider’s MATISSE and monographs by, or about, Pavarotti, Pierre Boulez, Robert Motherwell, Picasso, Henry Moore, Chuck Close, and architects Robert A.M. Stern, Richard Meier, Frank Gehry, Alvar Aalto,  Santiago Calatrava, and Kohn Pedersen Fox (to name a few).  Planned and co-hosted with Rizzoli President Gianfranco Monacelli the annual “Architects’ Day,” when over 30 prominent architects would gather to sign their books at Rizzoli Bookstore on 57th Street.  New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable congratulated Rizzoli on becoming the leading architecture book publisher in America in a relatively short period of time.

Sherrie graduated magna cum laude from the University of Toronto with a BA in Honor Philosophy. She has taken a wide variety of post-graduate courses at Dartmouth, New York University, Juilliard, the 92nd Street Y, and Fordham University.  An enthusiastic traveler, she has toured Japan, India, and Russia, as well as eight trips to Europe and six months in Caracas, teaching English.  A consistent supporter of humanitarian causes, she has been a monthly contributor to Amnesty International for 30 years and to Habitat for Humanity monthly for 10 years.