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Shequeta L. Smith is a Salisbury, North Carolina native and alumna of North Carolina State University. In 2016, Smith launched Shero Comics, a multimedia company that builds comic, film, and gaming IPs that feature women and girls of color as the main protagonists. In 2019, Smith partnered with Westfield Corporation and launched the all-female comic convention, SheroCon. Most recently, Smith was selected by Goldman Sachs for the 2023 One Million Black Women investment initiative and the JLH Social Impact Fund. In 2024, Smith is launching a gaming division, “Shero Games.”238 Word Bio
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 films, writing, and creating comics, and writing award-winning screenplays that typically feature powerful women. In 2016, while working in corporate sales for Coca-Cola, Smith launched the multimedia company Shero Comics, which focuses on building comic book, film and gaming IPs that feature women and girls of color as the main protagonists.
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. A week later, she was one of eight screenwriters in the world chosen by Hollywood powerhouses Ron Howard and Brian Grazer to write a screenplay in their “Imagine Impact 2” screenwriting incubator.
In 2021, Smith received the Digital Undivided Breakthrough Grant, powered by JP Morgan Chase & Co.’s Advancing Black Pathways. In 2023, Smith was selected by Goldman Sachs for their One Million Black Women: Black in Business investment initiative and the JLH Social Impact Fund. Currently, Smith is preparing to launch the gaming division of her company, “Shero Games,” where she is currently adapting her Korean-African American graphic novel series, “Rayven Choi,” into a mobile game, and her SheroCon comic convention into a Roblox gaming experience.
