Shamontiel (pronounced Shə mawn T L) Latrice Vaughn is a full-time Editorial Writer for TCS Education and the author of two novels ("Round Trip" and "Change for a Twenty"). Her writing clips can be found in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Defender, CBS Chicago, ChicagoNow's "Message from Montie," AXS, MADE magazine, Gurulife, Sun Times Network, Blavity, Citizens in America magazine, Fate magazine, Examiner.com, TheFrisky.com, HyPaChicago.org Associated Content (renamed Yahoo! Contributor Network) and more.
Her current content can be found on TCS Education partnering sites: Saybrook University's blog and Unbound digital magazine, Pacific Oaks College's blog and Voices print magazine, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and (an upcoming issue of) Insight print magazine. TCS Education also works with Dallas Nursing Institute and The Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law.
Before joining TCS Education's marketing team, she regularly worked with private clients on Textbroker and Upwork, and she was one-half of the writing team for J. Paye in Brief legal blogging. Her primary concentration areas in freelancing are business, entertainment and real estate blogging; marketing material for business and legal companies; pet health care; and workplace tips for a transcription company.
As a tech enthusiast with a web editing background, her resume includes past full-time employment as a Digital News Editor for the Chicago Tribune, and as a Staff Writer and Web Editor for The Chicago Defender. Her print editing background includes Feld Entertainment and Pearson Education, as well as an Assistant Copy Editor for Kaplan Financial.
This Chicago native graduated Cum Laude from Lincoln University (MO) with a Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing. Shamontiel has also taken certificate courses at the University of Chicago and attended graduate school at DePaul University in Lincoln Park. Her areas of educational focus were writing, communications, Spanish and criminal justice. In 2003, she received the Missouri Writer's Guild Walter Williams Outstanding Student Award. In 2007, she was honored at Lincoln University (Missouri) with the Master Student award. Shamontiel is also a member of the International English Honor Society and Sigma Tau Delta.
Shamontiel has participated in various political and news events, including promoting and raising money for President Barack H. Obama's presidential campaign; completing canvass assignments for the Affordable Care Act registration; educating curious minds about a vegan lifestyle; and volunteering for organizations such as BEHIV to speak about safe sex, STD and STI testing.
Although reading will always be her favorite hobby, music isn't far behind, specifically positive hip-hop, dance/pop, R&B, smooth jazz, country and neosoul. Health and fitness are a priority for her everyday life as a 10-year vegetarian and second-year vegan. She's taken just about every fitness or contemporary dance class there is from belly dancing to boxing to weight training. Practicing yoga and meditation a few times a week are mandatory to keep her (reasonably) sane.
When she's not chatting it up on social media, there's a pretty good chance she's traveling to somebody's beach, lakefront, bookstore or vegan restaurant.
Her current content can be found on TCS Education partnering sites: Saybrook University's blog and Unbound digital magazine, Pacific Oaks College's blog and Voices print magazine, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and (an upcoming issue of) Insight print magazine. TCS Education also works with Dallas Nursing Institute and The Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law.
Before joining TCS Education's marketing team, she regularly worked with private clients on Textbroker and Upwork, and she was one-half of the writing team for J. Paye in Brief legal blogging. Her primary concentration areas in freelancing are business, entertainment and real estate blogging; marketing material for business and legal companies; pet health care; and workplace tips for a transcription company.
As a tech enthusiast with a web editing background, her resume includes past full-time employment as a Digital News Editor for the Chicago Tribune, and as a Staff Writer and Web Editor for The Chicago Defender. Her print editing background includes Feld Entertainment and Pearson Education, as well as an Assistant Copy Editor for Kaplan Financial.
This Chicago native graduated Cum Laude from Lincoln University (MO) with a Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing. Shamontiel has also taken certificate courses at the University of Chicago and attended graduate school at DePaul University in Lincoln Park. Her areas of educational focus were writing, communications, Spanish and criminal justice. In 2003, she received the Missouri Writer's Guild Walter Williams Outstanding Student Award. In 2007, she was honored at Lincoln University (Missouri) with the Master Student award. Shamontiel is also a member of the International English Honor Society and Sigma Tau Delta.
Shamontiel has participated in various political and news events, including promoting and raising money for President Barack H. Obama's presidential campaign; completing canvass assignments for the Affordable Care Act registration; educating curious minds about a vegan lifestyle; and volunteering for organizations such as BEHIV to speak about safe sex, STD and STI testing.
Although reading will always be her favorite hobby, music isn't far behind, specifically positive hip-hop, dance/pop, R&B, smooth jazz, country and neosoul. Health and fitness are a priority for her everyday life as a 10-year vegetarian and second-year vegan. She's taken just about every fitness or contemporary dance class there is from belly dancing to boxing to weight training. Practicing yoga and meditation a few times a week are mandatory to keep her (reasonably) sane.
When she's not chatting it up on social media, there's a pretty good chance she's traveling to somebody's beach, lakefront, bookstore or vegan restaurant.
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