Greetings, I am Shaashawn, user of she/her pronouns. a self-identified military kid, communicator, writer, researcher, activator, connector, woo-er, strategic thinker, and D&B transformative agent highly adaptable to change consistently poised to pivot and not panic. Skilled in managing effective teams in diverse locations, organizational development on executive leadership teams, and advising senior leaders to solve complex problems; I am a persuasive writer, speaker, and facilitator. I am an action planner with creative detail orientated stakeholder management and inclusive customer service delivery, creating brave spaces with individuals, communities, and organizations to close disparity gaps. With lived and learned experiences in human/social services, higher education administration, broadcast radio, local municipal government administration, health care and entrepreneurship; I am a trusted sounding board. I contribute my time, treasures, and talents currently as the Vice President of Education with Virginia League of Planned Parenthood. I am the author of two books: Acquired Taste of Love: Spice Filled Poems to Please Your Palate and Estrogen in the Atmosphere (2014) and a spoken word CD titled VOYCEMAIL (2010). I am the Founder of Voycetress Media, LLC, providing consulting services via curriculum development, professional development, facilitation experiences regarding justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, inclusive sex ed and voice over services. I am a HERstory maker, as the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and served one year as the inaugural Co-Vice Chair & Commissioner of former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s Commission on LGBTQ Affairs; the first commission of its kind in the nation. I am the first Black womxn to hold the position of President of the Board of Directors for the LGBT Center of Central PA in 2017 and co-founded Studs Magazine, a quarterly publication that celebrated Handsomely Beautifully Women (masculine presenting womxn) in 2007. In 2007 while serving as the Program Director of Harrisburg’s only urban radio station, WTCY1400 AM “THE TOUCH” I created and hosted The Shaashawn Dial Show: A Dial Movement weekday 3pm- 7 pm; the first live and local weekday show in the station’s eighteen-year existence. My additional broadcasting experience includes: WWKL-FM Hot 92.1 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, KWWC-FM 90.5 in Columbia, Missouri, and WVST-FM 91.3 in Petersburg, Virginia.