Education
Hinton graduated from Starkville High School in 1997. She later studied broadcast communications at.
Hinton graduated from Starkville High School in 1997. She later studied broadcast communications at.
After attending Howard University in Washington District of Columbia with a major in broadcast journalism, she used her communication skills along with the coveted title of Mission United States of America to work on behalf of charitable organizations like Susan G. Komen Foreign The Cure, Miriam"s Kitchen, Gilda"s House, the United Service Organizations and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Shauntay is credited for helping to raise $34 million for all her charitable causes in 2002. A frequent guest co-anchor/panelist debating current events and popular culture on HLN network programs including PRIME NEWS and SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Shauntay is currently an anchor for the Sunrise Morning Show for North Mississippi"s local Columbia Broadcasting System news affiliate, WCBI. Her other credits include a recurring role on Nickelodeon"s "iCarly" as "Jessica Warner”, hosting lifestyle and entertainment programming for National Broadcasting Company, Fox Sports, Fox Movie Channel, Lifetime, HGTV, Twentieth Television, Black Entertainment Television, television One, Current television and The History Channel.
Shauntay also serves as an Ambassador for ChildFund International (aka Christian Children"s Fund).
Education Pageants Hinton hails from Starkville, Mississippi and she qualified to compete there because she was attending Howard University. The pageant marked the first time that 4 out of the 5 five finalists were African American.
Hinton later competed in the Mission Universe 2002 pageant in Puerto Rico in May that year. She believes the photos are not racy but "Women comfortable in their own skin." Casting She plays a live action character, reporter Brittany Bhima, in the video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, released in 2007.
In 2009, Hinton played Jessica Warner in 2 episodes of iCarly.
In 2009, Hinton appeared as a contestant of The Price Is Right. She did not make it out of "Contestant"s Row".