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Shalanda Helen Baker (born December 24, 1976) is an American legal scholar and U.S. Air Force veteran who was director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the US Department of Energy in the Biden administration from 2022 to 2024. In 2024, she…
1985–
Shamel Pitts is an American artist, choreographer, performer and teacher. He is the founder and artistic director at TRIBE which is a New York-based multidisciplinary arts collective. He is best known for his creation of a triptych of multidisciplinary…
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Shamier Little ( shə-MEER; born March 20, 1995) is an American track and field sprinter specializing in the 400 metres hurdles. As a 20-year-old college sophomore at Texas A&M University, Little was the 2015 US champion. She then went on to win the silver…
1988–
Shana Woods (born July 7, 1988 in Bellflower, California) is an American track and field athlete. She holds the current national high school record in the multiple event heptathlon, which she set while attending Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long…
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Shane Courtney Battier (born 1978) is an American former professional basketball player. He played at Duke University, spent thirteen years in the National Basketball Association and represented the United States in international basketball.
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Shane C. Campbell-Staton is an American evolutionary biologist. Since July 2021, he has been an assistant professor in the ecology and evolutionary biology department at Princeton, where he leads a research group. His work is on how phenotypes respond to…
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Shane Lee Mack (born 1963) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played college baseball at UCLA and later played for major-league clubs including the San Diego Padres, Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox, as well as Japan’s Yomiuri Giants.
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Shane Ryan MBE (born 13 May 1969) is a British social reformer/activist, writer and formerly, the Chief Executive of Future Men, a charity supporting men and boys in the United Kingdom and also secretariat for the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) On…
1976–2024
Shani Tahir Mott (March 16, 1976 – March 12, 2024) was an American scholar of Black studies, best known for her advocacy and her examination of race and power in the United States. Her dissertation analysed how 20th century nonfiction and fiction writers…
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Shani Peters (born 1981) is an artist from Lansing, Michigan, based in New York. She received her BA from Michigan State University and her MFA from the City College of New York, where she taught in 2020. Her work often addresses issues related to social…
1987–
Shannon G. Hardin (born April 7, 1987) is an American Democratic politician who has served as the President of the Columbus, Ohio City Council since January 2018. Hardin is a Columbus native, and attended Columbus Africentric K-8 and Columbus Alternative…
1974–
Shannon Regina "Pee Wee" Johnson (born August 18, 1974) is an American basketball player born in Hartsville, South Carolina. She last played for the Seattle Storm in the WNBA. She was the head coach at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina from 2015…
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Shannon W. Dycus is a U.S. reverend and academic administrator serving as president of Eastern Mennonite University since 2025.
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Shardé M. Davis is an Afro-American academic who created the hashtag #BlackintheIvory, which was popularised on Twitter in the wake of widespread protests following the murder of George Floyd.
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Sharif Bey (born 1974, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an African American artist, ceramicist, and professor. He produces functional pottery as well as ceramic and mixed-media sculptures using various forms and textures. His body of work reflects his…
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Sharifa Tahiya Alkhateeb (born Thereffia Tahia Ahmad Bey; June 6, 1946 – October 21, 2004) was an American writer, researcher and teacher on cultural communication and community building for Islam and Muslims in the United States. She was involved in…
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Sharlene D. Newman is an American cognitive neuroscientist, executive director of the Alabama Life Research Institute at the University of Alabama (UA), Professor in the Department of Psychology at UA, and an adjunct professor in the Department of…
1977–
Sharolta Louisa Nonen (born December 30, 1977) is a Canadian former soccer defender and current women's soccer coach of the Florida International University Panthers. She played for the Nebraska Cornhuskers in college, where she was the first three-time…
1947–2020
Sharon Ann Chatman (December 15, 1947 – December 22, 2020) was an American college basketball coach, a lawyer, and a judge. Chatman was the head coach at San Jose State from 1976 to 1986. Chatman subsequently change careers, graduated from law school,…
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Sharon Duncan-Brewster (born 8 February 1976) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Liet-Kynes in the 2021 film Dune, and before that as Crystal Gordon in Bad Girls during the first four series (1999–2002); her role as Trina Johnson on…
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Sharon Egretta Sutton (born 1941), is an American architect, educator, visual artist, and author. Her work is focused on community-based participatory research and design.
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Sharon L. Fries-Britt (born 1959?) is a professor of higher education at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Sharon G. Flake (born December 25, 1955) is an American writer of children and young adult literature who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Flake's debut novel, The Skin I'm In, was published in 1998. Her work has won numerous awards, including the John…
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Sharon M. Lewis is a Canadian television personality, actress, writer and director from Toronto, Ontario. She studied political science at the University of Toronto. She began her career in theatre, collaborating with Maxine Bailey on the play Sistahs in 1994.
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