Shequeta Smith

BIOGRAPHIE

Shequeta L. Smith is a Salisbury, North Carolina native and alumna of North Carolina State University. She began her career in entertainment as a College Representative for Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella Records. Since 2008, she has been busy writing and directing short films, writing, and creating comics, and writing award-winning screenplays that typically feature badass women. In 2019, she was one of eight screenwriters in the world selected to write a screenplay in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Impact screenwriting incubator program. In 2016, while working in corporate sales for Coca-Cola, Smith launched the multimedia company Shero Comics, which focuses on minority women in comics, films, and gaming - with the mission to help minority women and girls uncover their superpowers. In 2019, Smith partnered with Westfield Corporation and launched the only all-female comic convention in America, SheroCon, making history as the first comic-con to ever take place inside a Westfield property. In December, Smith was awarded the 2021 Digital Undivided Breakthrough Grant, powered by JP Morgan Chase & Co.’s Advancing Black Pathways. And most recently, she was selected by Goldman Sachs into the One Million Black Women: Black in Business investment initiative. Both grants are being used to help Smith launch “Shero Games,” the gaming division of her company where she is currently developing her award-winning graphic novel series, Rayven Choi, into a mobile game.

FILMOGRAPHIE