In 2012, Merkerson became the host of Find Our Missing, a reality-reenactment series on TV One which profiles missing people of color.\n', '

In 2015, she was cast as Sharon Goodwin, Chief of Medical Services of the fictional Gaffney Chicago Medical Center Hospital on the NBC medical drama Chicago Med.\n', '

Merkerson was born in Saginaw, Michigan. Her parents separated when she was five. One of five children raised by a single mother who worked for the United States Postal Service, Merkerson grew up in a what she recalled to be a majority-white neighborhood in Detroit.\n', '

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