2010 ATHENA Finalist Sharon Knutson-Felix

Sharon Knutson Felix
Executive Director
100 Club of Arizona

Those who help keep us safe can count on having someone watching their backs. Sharon Knutson-Felix, executive director of the 100 Club of Arizona, knows first-hand the burden carried by public safety workers and their families. Having lost a young son and her husband, a highway patrol officer, in tragic accidents, she devotes her professional life to supporting families of police officers, firefighters and other law enforcement workers.

“Every day I do my very best to bring attention to not just the hardships of public safety, but the accomplishments as well,” Knutson-Felix says. “I hope everyone realizes that those who serve us and put their lives on the line every day are moms, dads, brothers and sisters, that there are people behind those uniforms.”

Knutson-Felix has helped increase the 100 Club’s assistance to public safety families and agencies eightfold in nine years and launched and expanded the Club’s scholarship program which helps those family members pursue higher education. And the same faith that helped this pastor’s daughter get through her own grief now calls her to active participation in her church and with local charities.

Video courtesy A. Shore Thing Productions.