In addition to leading the Tucson Rotary Club, Harris is a mother of three, former president of the Junior League of Tucson, chairwoman of the Diocese of Tucson Sexual Misconduct Review Board and a reading coach for the Reading Seed Children’s Literacy Program, where she works on a semi-weekly basis with two students at Robison Elementary School in the Tucson Unified School District.
Harris influenced a collaboration between the Rotary club and literacy center in 2005, when she was placed on the initial board and aided in grant writing. The literacy center, which originally served a couple of schools, now has about 1,000 trained volunteers who go into 114 schools in the community. The volunteers provide reading lessons to students in first to third grade.