CRNF Member Spotlight

CRNF Member Spotlight: 

SHEDISHA ABENA MATTHIAS, BS, MA: Students for Students International Coordinator

Shedisha Abena Matthias hails from Jamaica but was raised in New York City. Her formative years were spent in a high school that cultivated her love of international finance and economics. She attended Carnegie Mellon University and majored in economics before joining IBM Public Sector Consulting Practice. She took a two year hiatus from consulting to serve as foreign expert for the Shenzhen Education Bureau; where she taught English at Shenzhen Normal University Middle School in China. After several years abroad, Shedisha returned to the states and earned her Master’s in International Policy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, while honing her skills in trade, entrepreneurship and management. She would later go on to work briefly as a knowledge management consultant at a San Francisco-based international organization focused on social entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Shedisha can now be found working in the nation’s capital at well-respected consulting firm bringing innovative technology solutions to government agencies.