Shaka Senghor facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Shaka Senghor
Born	21 June 1978
Occupation	College lecturer, Author
Nationality	American
Citizenship	American

Shaka Senghor is an author, speaker, and coach. He was formerly Vice President of Corporate Communications at Navan, an MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow, and Fellow in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Community Leadership Network.

..... His book about his experience, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison (2016), became a New York Times best-seller. His second book, Letters to the Sons of Society, collects letters written to his sons Jay and Sekou.

Biography

Senghor was raised in a middle class family in Detroit during the 1980s. .....

In the summer of 1991, Senghor shot and killed a man, after which he spent 19 years incarcerated in different prisons in Michigan, seven years of which were in solitary confinement. Of these seven years, four and a half were consecutive. He was released from prison in 2010. In his book Writing My Wrongs, Senghor discusses rehabilitation and accountability while in incarceration.

In addition to his positions at Navan and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Community Leadership Network, Senghor has taught classes at University of Michigan and the MIT Media Lab.

Books

• Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom (2022)
• Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in American Prison (2016)

See also

• List of homicides in Michigan