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Sharon Eubank is an administrator in the Welfare Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which she is a member. She has worked in the department since 1998 and for five years managed the Humanitarian wheelchair program, expanding its reach to 50,000 individual donations each year and implementing World Health Organization training standards. In 2008, she became regional director of the LDS Charities for the Middle East Africa North area where she oversaw humanitarian work with active country offices in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Morocco. She is currently director of LDS Charities, which is the humanitarian organization of the Church of Jesus Christ.

Eubank was born in 1964 in Redding, California, to Mark and Jean Eubank. Her father was a broadcasting meteorologist who retired from KSL-TV in 2006. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Brigham Young University and served as a full-time missionary in Helsinki, Finland. Following college and missionary service, she taught English in Japan and worked as a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate for four years. She also owned a retail education store in Provo, Utah, for seven years.

Eubank served on the Relief Society general board during Julie B. Beck’s administration.