Sha'Mira is a PhD candidate in the Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors program at the University of Georgia. Her research explores fashion as a cultural, historical, social, and political phenomenon involved in and affected by histories of colonial domination, anti-colonial resistance, and processes of decolonization and globalization. Sha'Mira's primary interests are in Africana studies within the fashion-industrial complex, African diaspora fashion history, and womanist pedagogy. Sha'Mira has an M.S. in Communications and Public Relations from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Science in Fashion Merchandising and Art History from the University of Georgia.