Shakira is an award-winning public relations and marketing professional with array of  experience leading communications strategies for various  entities. In her nearly 15 years of experience in radio, print, and television journalism and public relations, Shakira has worked with high profile news broadcasters, entertainers, moguls, financial experts, small business owners and c-suite level executives in various industries. She has been quoted and interviewed as an expert in PR Week, Brandweek, Woman's World, Smartmoney.com,  Working Mother, Creditcards.com, Black Enterprise, AOL Money & Finance, Plastic Surgery Practice Advisor, and NJBIZ, among many others.

Her clients have been featured in major market newspapers, national magazines, national shows, such as The Today Show, the Associated Press, BusinessWeek (print and online), Fortune, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, New York magazine, Lifetime Television, USA Today,  The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, National Public Radio (NPR), ABC, NBC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX News and CBS radio, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television and many other regional/local television affiliated networks and radio stations nationwide. 

Prior to her career in PR, Shakira produced and worked on programming for MTV Networks, CBS News, MSNBC News, NBC News and ABC Networks and television network affiliates in New York and Boston. As a producer for MSNBC, Shakira produced daily news broadcast and served as producer for taped programming during the Network’s weekday and weekend broadcasts.

Shakira is a member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and chair of PRSA's National Financial Communications section.  She  also served as diversity chair on the executive board for the PRSA-NJ chapter. In addition, she serves on the Board of Trustees for TV-36, a local public access television station serving the five New Jersey towns of Berkeley Heights, Millburn/Short Hills, New Providence, Springfield and Summit.  She also served as public relations chair on the executive committee for the New Jersey Chapter of the National Black MBA Association.  Furthermore, Shakira is a voting member of the National Academy of Television & Arts Sciences, commonly known as the Television Emmy Organization.

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