Shai (pronounced: "shy") is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She is a Florida native, and takes an intersectional feminist and ecological approach to investigate systemic injustice. Shai focuses on mass communication because it offers wide possibilities for social transformation. Her work examines how the macro level (laws/ systems/ ideology & hegemonic norms) interacts with the micro level (ideas of "self" and "others" & experiences with violence) to reinforce and recreate harmful social systems. Shai builds on radical black feminist traditions, and carries forward their ideas about solutions to complex social problems. In her doctoral work, Shai investigates racialized and gender-based violence, and the consciousness raising potential of edutainment media, social media, and AI. She focuses on sexual violence specifically as a window into a personal and complex social problem that is worth re-examining for root causes and liberatory solutions.