CHC Program Director

Alabiddin S. Umar Sharif, M.A. joined the PVCC faculty in the 1990-1991 school year as the resident Sociologist in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department which at the time was paired with the Health Education and Fitness Department forming the Human Development Division of Paradise Valley Community College. Sharif received his undergraduate B.S. Degree in Social Sciences from Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New York in a combined experimental psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology program. He received his M.A. Degree from Arizona State University with emphasis in Medical Sociology, Social Organization, and Social Problems.

Sharif is Seifu (Head Teacher) of the 7Circles Southern/Northern Shaolin WuShu/WuKung & Qigong Pai and founder of the Wu-Te Performance Troupes. A 30 year veteran of the Afro-Asian Martial Arts, Sharif began his formal training as a member of the Chinese Kung Fu WuSu Association and student of Grand Master Alan Lee in New York City. (learn more)

Sharif is an alumnus of the Asian Studies Development Program with the East-West Center and University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is educated in both Asian and Southeast Asian Studies and has traveled the southeast coast of China from Beijing to Hong Kong, to various parts of Southeast Asia including Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Indonesian countries of Java and Bali, and to the West African Nation of Nigeria. (learn more)

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