Shai Fenwick

Shai Fenwick was born in Trinidad and Tobago to two economists and has been involved in both politics and education since she was a toddler. She has copy-edited engineers in Houston; edited and written for a daily newspaper and a monthly state magazine; worked with hearing and visually impaired students on behavior modification; taught science and social studies; and worked with faculty, staff, and a diverse array of students, faculty and staff at the University of Oklahoma. Her history is multinational and multiethnic.

Fenwick earned her bachelor's degree in anthropology, her master's in professional writing, and is all but dissertation in instructional leadership and academic curriculum at the University of Oklahoma. She has served on the board of the Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, the steering committee for Take Root Conference on Red State Reproductive Justice, the board of the Future Society of Central Oklahoma, and was a founding partner of Cobalt Prairie Consulting LLC. in Norman, Oklahoma.

She serves on the Diversity Committee of the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of English; teaches high school senior English and multigrade Creative Writing; is a union representative in the OEA; and a fierce advocate for equity, inquiry, joy, and justice everywhere.