About Shannah

Shannah Trailor was born in 1983 in Chicago and has been a published author for several years in addition to receiving several awards from organizations like the NAACP for art. She has spent a portion of her college education at the HBCU Florida A&M University where she learned many valuable lessons about life. Her current professional efforts include the creation of a book series geared toward INSPIRING people of all ages to improve their lives, and have a good time doing it. She is also the current director of The Black Star Project's Student Motivation Program, which is the largest student motivation program in the country. Through the Black Star Project Shannah is able to send doctors, lawyers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and other career professionals into grade schools and high schools to motivate the students about career goals and college. Shannah has also addressed thousands of people in the form of motivational conferences, and served as a keynote speaker on the April 9, 2005 Annual Conference for the Midwest Region of the National Council on Educating Black Children featuring Senator James Meeks , Phillip Jackson, and Arthur Yogi Ward.

Shannah's book "It Ain't So" was released April 26, 2005. The work was divided into three sections with love. The first section is Advice, a guide through different situations like addiction, creating self inspiration, appreciating others, avoiding poverty and self destruction, why you are not average, what light skin is, gaining control, child support, choosing a supportive mate and more. The next section contains a Short Story designed to grab your attention as well as your heart. You will float through the tragic time of a woman and her town, which will give you a new way to look at tragedies of your own. Finally there is a Poetry Corner in which you can examine and feel some of her thoughts about herself, men, love, social change, college, life, religion, our ancestors and more. This book was designed to make you think and feel good. It is designed to inspire you to live your dreams because you are not average, tragedies occur, but we live through beautiful poetry which has highs and lows all to make each of us better and more special than we would be without the situations that make us who we are. When we spill milk we don't sit on the floor and cry about it until someone comes hours, days, or years later to ask us what's wrong, we wipe it up. However many of us spill milk in our lives, or make a mistake and cry about it for years instead of wiping it up or fixing it. Her next release is the children's book "A kid can start a Business" because after school specials show children owning lemonade stands, but Shannah has never seen them on the Southside of Chicago. When a child owns a lemonade stand they are an entrepreneur, and if they have a friend or cousin working with them they are also an employer. We must teach our children to own businesses and avoid prison or it will be the end of the world, white and black alike.