Shatiera Porte’e

Biography

Shatiera Porte‘e is an international speaker, Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women Black in Business scholar, author, mentor, consultant, NJ Black Women’s Collective Leadership graduate, 2023 New Educator of the Year Black Excellence award recipient, and writing instructor for Project Write Now’s community outreach programs. Shatiera has been working in the mental health and education fields for almost two decades. Affectionately known as “your favorite school counselor,” Shatiera empowers others by sharing her story and the tools she used to overcome challenges to find herself. Shatiera travels the world speaking and hosting workshops and events promoting self-love, self-discovery, leadership, and self-confidence. Since 2021, Shatiera has had over 100 speaking engagements speaking to underserved youth, young girls, school, colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and women correctional facilities.

Over the past decade, Shatiera has implemented programs to over hundreds of at-risk students. Shatiera has created more than a dozen initiatives for businesses, communities empowering youth, corrections, emergency crisis and psychiatric screening services. Growing from a mentee to now a mentor, Shatiera supports individuals toward mental health wellness in a non-traditional approach. Shatiera is the founder of School Counselor On Wheels, LLC, an education consulting company that provides professional development workshops for staff and social emotional programs for youth to help promote student success through academics, mental health wellness, and leadership.

Shatiera enjoys community outreach, having the opportunity to teach at a school in Haiti, volunteering at an orphanage in Morocco, and connecting with women in Johannesburg, South Africa and Accra, Ghana. Shatiera’s goal is to mentor at least 10,000 girls. She is a writing instructor working diligently to one day establish her own international mentoring program helping young girls and women all over the world to love themselves through expressive writing and journaling.