Shawnta Smith's Bio

My YES! Jams
2001 World Jam
2001 USA Jam

Location: Brooklyn

Bio:

Sister Outsider is a collective organization that employs self-supporting young women to develop social justice projects and earn living wages in Brooklyn, New York. Shawnta is a founding board member of FIERCE, the only queer (lesbian, bisexual, gay, transsexual) youth activist organization in NYC, and founding member of YA-YA Network, networking NYC based youth organizations. Her upcoming project is “Investment Activism,” a new wave of self-sufficient fundraising and economic development training for activists and poor communities. Shawnta lives poor in Brooklyn, NY, in a small apartment with her future wife, Chino.

"This week has definitely changed my life."