Sheyene Gerardi

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Sheyene Gerardi (born April 13) is an Italo-Venezuelan former actress, producer, and media proprietor. She has won numerous awards for her work and charitable efforts.

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Early life and career

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Entertainment Her career as a professional model began in conjunction with her medical education; prior to attending university she represented her school in mathematics and chemistry competitions. Gerardi studied medicine at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. She worked as a model part time and participated in the Miss Venezuela Pageant. During her time at the university, a TV producer discovered Gerardi, and she garnered a starring role on a popular soap opera series that was broadcast internationally. Gerardi is known for her work in more than 30 countries, including Russia, Germany, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. Given her influence on the culture, a non-profit charity foundation in Barlovento, Venezuela — the Sheyene School — is named after her.

Gerardi has won several awards such as the Emmy Award, the 2 de Oro award, She has received the key of the city in Barlovento, the Meridiano de Oro award and the Imagen Awards. The actress has also credits in roles as a TV host. In 2016, Gerardi was named a Mogul Influencer in New York City.

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Later career Later in her career, Gerardi founded the Sheyene Gerardi Network (SGN), a variety of mainstream entertainment forms dedicated to fostering awareness related to the space revolution. On March 9, 2020, Gerardi began hosting a TV show documentary entitled "To the Moon and Back with Sheyene Gerardi" distributed through cable television, where Gerardi aims to educate about leading-edge technological developments. She also served as executive producer for this series.

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Business career

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Sheyene Technology Gerardi is active in the area of robotics towards autonomous mining and self-driving cars. In 2017, Gerardi established a robotic company spun out of the Sheyene Institute to commercialize her robotics product line for industrial and commercial uses. Gerardi's company builds its own robots for mining operations. The firm has sold its portfolio of products and services to various organizations, including government agencies in the USA; it also has product research and development operations in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) and for deployment on in situ planetary and lunar missions.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, the company products are available for commercial, industrial, enterprise and university research applications. Sheyene Technology is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Sheyene Gerardi Family Office with additional offices in Shanghai, China and Barcelona, Spain.

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Activism and politics

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Politics In April 2020, Gerardi enrolled in the University of Naples Federico II to acquire a degree in Political science.

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Human rights and Peace activism In 2020, Gerardi joined the American Society of International Law and became involved with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Gerardi has been a featured speaker at several international business and technology forums, including the World Government Summit and the Nobel Prize Summit. In the "Sheyene Institute founder's letter", Gerardi stressed the importance of the role of entertainment with a long-standing interest in social issues such as technological literacy and the space revolution, as well as settlement work to uplift misrepresented people to Spurring Participation in Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (S.P.A.C.E), a movement intended to promote citizen participation in, and broadened ownership of, space industry.

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Institutional affiliations

Gerardi was formerly a member of L'association française de science politique (AFSP), Women' /ref> She was both a member of the Law and Ethics of Robotics committee group and served as strategic advisor of the Next Generation Committee of The Robotics Society of Japan. She was also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and its Robotics and Automation Society (RAS).

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Education Gerardi graduated in art from institutions such as Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M), Sotheby's Institute of Art and Central University of Venezuela.

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Personal life Sheyene Gerardi was born in Venezuela, she holds dual-citizenship with Italy, from where her mother hails.

In 2006, her mother and father were killed in an automobile accident, leaving Sheyene with no living relatives. A year later, she received a diagnosis of advanced lymphoma stage IV, a very rare type of cancer with only 60 cases reported worldwide with no survivors. The cancer spread throughout 85% of her body and doctors gave her three months to live. During her chemotherapy treatments, Gerardi worked in two films in Mexico, first, starred in La virgen de la caridad del cobre. Six months later, in Santa Juanita de los lagos, Gerardi underwent three years of chemotherapy, she suffered no hair loss.

Gerardi grew up an avid fan of racing, her father, Edgar García, was a renowned explorer and a race-car driver in Venezuela; he had five consecutive wins before he died. In 1974, García led an expedition to Mount Roraima, resulting in the discovery of 11 new scorpion species, one of them: Neochactas garciai, was named in his honor for his contribution to the understanding of scorpion species. Gerardi has spoken about her passion for sailing, she is a certified yacht captain and owns a yacht, named after her in Florida.

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Philanthropy Gerardi founded the Sheyene Gerardi Foundation in 2007, originally in Venezuela but re-organized in New York.

The foundation is dedicated to harnessing the potential of emerging technologies like AI and space exploration to address global challenges. Through research, education, and outreach initiatives, SGF fosters ethical and equitable solutions in areas such as economic development, environmental sustainability, and social justice.

As of Jan 2024, the foundation is organized into four program areas under president Gerardi, who sets strategic priorities, monitors results, and facilitates relationships with key partners.

• Research and Development Division
• Social Impact and Governance Division
• Outreach & Education Division
• Mission Operations Manager Division

In addition to her management positions at the organization, Gerardi led lobbying and public relation efforts for the organization, according to public records.

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Program areas and initiatives Education

The Sheyene School, its role is to address technological literacy in robotics and STEM related fields, for low-income children in underdeveloped regions.

Food program

Launched in 2021, SGF's food program delivers emergency food assistance to vulnerable communities facing pandemic, environmental, or humanitarian crises.

CEO Program

The Commonwealth Enrichment and Outreach (CEO) Program, established in 2022, fosters financial security through entrepreneurial support initiatives.

Telemedicine

The Sheyene e-health, an electronic healthcare information delivery network for rare diseases, founded in 2016, after becoming a survivor of an unclassifiable splenic hairy small B-Cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a rare cancer.

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Filmography

1998	Hoy te vi	Perla
1998	Niña mimada	La Araña
2003–2004	La Invasora	Yoly
2004–2005	Mujer con pantalones	Guillermina Peréz
2006–2007	Por todo lo alto	Sonia
2007–2008	Camaleona	Susana Rincón
2008–2009	La virgen de la caridad del cobre	Martha
2010–2011	Santa Juanita de los lagos
2012–2013	Esta noche tu night	Host
2013–2014	Los Implicados	Host
2014–2015	A tacon quitao	Host
2017–2018	Noticiero Telemundo	Anchor
2020	To the moon and back with Sheyene Gerardi	Host/ Executive Producer

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External links

• CNN interview
• CNN interview
• La Invasora(2003)

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