Shawnda provides finance, budget and grant oversight to the Kenan Institute.

She has more than 18 years of higher education accounting experience and joins the institute following an eight-year tenure at the North Carolina State University Engineering Foundation. While at NCSU, she managed a $13M budget consisting of a wide variety of financial transactions, corporate and individual gifts, HR and procurement processes, and more. She previously spent 10 years at North Carolina Central University, serving as Assistant Director of Business Affairs and as Interim Associate Dean for Finance and Administration for the NCCU Law School. 

Shawnda graduated from NCSU with a bachelor’s of science in Accounting and has a master’s degree in Public Administration from NC Central University.