Shenekia Weeks was hired in June 2021 as the Town of Chapel Hill’s first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Officer.
The Town of Chapel Hill’s Diversity Officer collaborates with local leadership to direct, programs and activities designed to celebrate Chapel Hill’s diversity and to establish equitable opportunities for all.
Weeks currently serves as the District Administrator of the Guardian ad Litem Program in Stokes and Surry counties where she oversees a court-based program that provides children foster care with a trained volunteer advocate and attorney for abuse and neglect hearings. From 2016 through 2020 she served as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Trauma for EducationPlus.
Weeks earned a BA in Psychology from NC A&T University and an MPA from North Carolina Central University.
