Shakir graduated with a Bachelor in History from Rutgers University and a Master of Arts in Administration from Saint Peter’s Jesuit College. Her other studies include Organizational Behavior at Polytechnic in Brooklyn, New New York and graduate studies in History at Rutgers University and Fayetteville State University. Shakir is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, National Honor Society in.
A founding member and officer of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, she has also served on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Council for the Social Studies and the New Jersey Center for Civic and Law Related She was a Non-Governmental Agency delegate to the United Nations Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, and she served as a staff member at a National Democratic Convention, as a delegate for the White House Conference on Families and as a Commissioner on the Montclair, New Jersey Civil Rights Commission. An anti-racist trainer she has presented at regional and National Teacher Conferences.
Shakir is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, National Honor Society in Shakir writes opinion editorials for the Fayetteville Observer where she served as a member of the Community Advisory Board. She is a volunteer with the Cumberland County Progressives, hosts a local Progressives cable show and is a member of the Fayetteville Peace with Justice Committee, the Carolina African American Writers Collective and has been a volunteer reader for the blind and a reading buddy in Fayetteville school.
