Shakkira [Sha-KY-Rah] Harris (she/her) is an experienced storyteller with an extensive background in building impactful narratives across various mediums. She’s a proficient and passionate writer, business owner, and marketing professional.

Shakkira takes pride in elevating stories to reach a broader audience while helping cultivate and sustain credibility and authenticity.

Shakkira’s written journalism can be found in The Arizona Republic, NUVO, WRTV, Medium, and The Manuscript. Her marketing CV extends from building the Ivy Indy magazine and curating and sustaining the news and blog site for Ivy Tech’s largest campus.

Shakkira was a 2018 Pulliam Fellow placed in Phoenix, Arizona, where she learned from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists for the better part of a year. There, she began not only her journey as a journalist but as a social media producer. She gained experience in everything social, from real-time reporting at MAGA rallies and ICE protests to writing up trending news.

She moved back to Indianapolis in 2019 to be a Digital Content Producer at WRTV, where she helped manage the newsroom’s CMS, enhance on-air reporters’ stories digitally, and engaged in the production of growing WRTV’s digital audience. Quickly, Shakkira worked her way up to becoming a Real-Time Digital Content Editor for WRTV.com. Under this role, she operated as an assignment editor, breaking news reporter, and homepage editor. In 2021, Shakkira was again promoted at WRTV and took on the position of Digital Enterprise Reporter, focusing on the community, culture, and diversity beats — often dabbling in several others, such as art, entertainment, and business. Being a digital reporter means Shakkira wrote and developed stories on several platforms with a digital-first mindset, such as website articles, videos for OTT/streaming, scripts for traditional television, and social media.

In 2022, Shakkira opened her first business, Milkman’s Daughter, alongside her partner. Milkman’s Daughter is a private, mobile bartending and mixology service based in Indianapolis. Milkman’s Daughter specializes in curating craft cocktails and mocktails, elevating the bar and drink menu for various events.

In 2023, Shakkira became the Director of Content Marketing for Ivy Tech Indianapolis, where she enjoys discovering and thus sharing the countless stories surrounding the community-oriented campus.

Shakkira continues to freelance for publications near and far by way of Indianapolis. Community-driven journalism, literature, pop culture, food, art, race, sex, and gender relations are all topics Shakkira cares about most.

Her first published short story, “We All Have Them,” can be read in the 2018 Butler University literary magazine, The Manuscript. 

Shakkira is a proud graduate of IUPUI, where she earned her BA in Journalism with a focus on Sports, her Minor in Literature, and where she also studied Creative Writing and American Sign Language.

Shakkira is an aspirant MFA student, sexological bodywork educator, and multi-level entrepreneur. In another season of her life, she hopes to be an author. 

Shakkira is a frequent traveler who has been to over half of the U.S., plus five countries and counting. She enjoys live music and literature, indulging in a fine cocktail, and practicing radical self-expression and love.