Shequeta is a Salisbury, NC native who has always had a love for movies. While attending North Carolina State University, obtaining her degree in Sociology, an English professor read a play that she had written and suggested that she consider screenwriting. Unaware of what that was, Shequeta continued to focus on her studies while writing an entertainment column for the School Newspaper.

Upon graduating, Shequeta finally decided to try her hand at screenwriting and a few months later she completed her first screenplay, “Drama,” which advanced to the finalist level in the prestigious “Sundance Filmmaker’s Lab.”

Over the next three years, Shequeta would write numerous screenplays and teleplays. Some of them placing in programs such as: Nickelodeon, AFI Directing Workshop for Women, and Tribeca All Access. However, after growing tired of trying to reach Hollywood from nearly two thousand miles away, Shequeta packed her things and moved to Hollywood. Soon thereafter, she landed a job as a production assistant on the CW’s hit show “Everybody Hates Chris.” Months later, she optioned her reality show, “The Ultimatum,” to the same production company that was behind the hit show “The Apprentice.”

In recent months, Shequeta’s short film, “The J.H. Gunn Project,” has been making its worldwide debut by showing in festivals like the 2009 Ventura Film Festival, 2009 Johnstown Film Festival, 2009 Alexandria Film Festival, the 2009 Lola Kenya Screen Festival, and the upcoming Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival. Currently, Shequeta is writing a mob story that takes place in the south.