slanier22@nul.org
Speaker Bio
Shannon LaNier is an Emmy Award winning TV show host and news anchor with Cheddar News’ Opening Bell 9am-11am (ET). He is also a fatherhood & family influencer as @MrShannonLanier on social media with nearly 500,000 followers on TikTok alone. Watch his hilarious journey as a positively present dad to his 3 #LittleLaniers & husband to his college sweetheart.
Shannon's also the co-author of the Random House Inc. book "Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family" along with photojournalist Jane Feldman. As the 6th great-grandson of President Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings, the book follows his journey to unite with other Jefferson descendants… Black, white and everyone in between. While you may remember Shannon as co-host of BET’s celebrity talk show Arise Entertainment 360 and Black Enterprise Magazine’s nationally-syndicated shows: Black Enterprise Business Report & Our World With Black Enterprise you can also watch/listen to him as host of the celebrity fathers podcast, Daddy Duty 365.