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Raised between Queens, NY, and Irving, TX, Shanice Williamson, having befriended, engaged with, or worked with folks from many different backgrounds, is a cultural shapeshifter type. By age 18, she’d already worked for Jamaica Savings Bank, Ernst & Young, and GTE. She left a nearly 20-year paralegal career to become a freelance production assistant in the Atlanta film industry – at 41 years old. Since shifting to the film world she has worked in the art department as a props buyer on The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix) before quickly moving up to art department coordinator on The Bobby Brown Story (BET), American Soul (BET) and Stargirl (CW).
Shanice gives us a deep dive into how, at age 41, she moved from a 20-year paralegal career to becoming an art department coordinator. Throughout the conversation she elaborates on how using her past skill set has moved her from accountant to props buyer to art department coordinator, most recently on Stargirl (CW) and American Soul (BET). We end by hearing her take on the Black Lives Matter movement and how it is our collective responsibility to ensure everyone is given a fair chance on set.