Shanita Baraka Akintonde, MBA
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Shanita Baraka Akintonde, MBA, is president of ShanitaSpeaks, LLC. She is a past chair of PRSA’s DEI Committee and the 2022 recipient of PRSA’s D. Park Gibson Award, which recognizes a PR professional who has helped increase awareness of PR within multicultural communities.