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| Chicago, IL |
| Top 17 2007
3rd runner-up 2006
Semi-finalist 2005
Semi-finalist 2004
Top 10, Miss IL Teen USA 2001
4th runner-up, Miss IL Teen USA 2000
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Shanon is a post graduate student attending DePaul University with a dual Masters in Sociology & Communications and working to pursue her Doctorate in Social and Educational Policy. Shanon says her life ambition and dream is to continue to travel the world pursuing a modeling and dancing career, obtain her Ph.D. in Education & Social Policy, and publish her book, “The Impact of Music in Education.” She has high aspirations to support abused and neglected children and to enhance and remedy their situations. Shanon wants to be a part of creating a safer environment for children to live, grow, and prosper.
Shanon is also a Professional Model, Dancer, and Certified Public Speaker. She has been featured in national magazines and national advertising campaigns as a print and runway model. She has been dancing since the age of 2 and currently is a Professional NBA dancer for the Chicago Bulls, proudly representing the Chicago Luvabulls, and the Head Coach and Director of the Dance Program for DePaul University. As a Nationally Certified Motivational Speaker for the youth, Shanon provides the Know-How to succeed and stresses the importance of education to grow to their potential. “Successful people have two things in common,” Shanon says, “Desire and Know-How.” She works to provide the Know-how to succeed and asks them to provoke the desire within.
Over the past year, Shanon has had the opportunity to travel to several different countries such as Japan, Greece, Cyprus, and the Netherlands and will be traveling to Turkey in February 2008 to work as a professional model, dancer, and spokesperson. She describes herself as ambitious, energetic, and caring. To cheer herself up, she likes to dance out her emotions and play the piano.
Throughout her academic career, Shanon has been very active in many aspects of DePaul University and volunteer work. She traveled to the Washington, DC Leadership Summit as DePaul’s Representative. She was a research assistant for the Center For Disease Control and the Chicago Recovery Alliance. She was the Vice President for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Student Government Liberal Arts & Sciences Senator, Golden Key International Honor Society Member, and a sports writer for the University’s Newspaper, The DePaulia. She also organized the program “Planning for College Success” and was the founder of “March To College Day” where they illustrate what it means and what it takes to go to college by connecting college students and middle school students on a college campus. “Leading by example,” Shanon expresses, “provides a lasting goal for our students, a motivation to continue in school.”
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Miss Illinois USA 2007 (semi-finalist)
Miss Illinois USA 2006 (3rd runner-up)
Miss Illinois USA 2005 (semi-finalist)
Miss Illinois USA 2004 (semi-finalist)
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