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 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.

Most recently, Smith participated in Goldman Sachs for the 2023 One Million Black Women: Black in Business investment initiative. Currently, she’s a fellow in the JLH Social Impact Program, and will use the grant to launch “Shero Games,” the gaming division of her company where she is currently developing her award-winning graphic novel, Rayven Choi, into a mobile game.