Shaun King Biography
Shaun King is a writer, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the Real Justice PAC in the United States. He uses social media to advocate for social justice. He is an important figure in the Black Lives Matter movement. He also launched a website called ‘The North Star,’ named after Frederick Douglass’ anti-slavery newspaper from the nineteenth century.
How old is Shaun King?- Age
He is 45 years old as of September 2022. Shaun King was born Jeffery Shaun King on 17 September 1979, in Franklin County, Kentucky, the United States of America.
Where did Shaun King go to school?- Education
Jeffery began his education at Huntertown Elementary School and later transferred to Woodford County High School. He enrolled in Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, for his college education; however, he had to take a leave of absence due to medical reasons. He received his Master of History from Arizona State University in 2018.
Shaun King Family- Mother
Shaun King was born on 17 September 1979, in Franklin County, Kentucky. Naomi Fleming and Jeffrey Wayne King as his parents. He has two siblings Jason King, and Russ King.
Shaun King Wife
Shaun King is married to Rai King, and they have three biological children as well as two adopted children. He has foster children.
Shaun King Career
King began working as a high school history and civics teacher in Atlanta after graduating in 2002. He began working for Atlanta’s juvenile justice system after about a year. For many years, he taught and counseled in a number of Georgian prisons and youth detention centers. He left his teaching job to become a pastor at Total Grace Christian Center in DeKalb County, Georgia. He founded the ‘Courageous Church’ in Atlanta in 2008 and used the popular social media site Facebook to recruit new members. Shaun founded ‘aHomeinHaiti.org’ in March 2010 and raised $1.5 million through eBay and Twitter campaigns to send tents to Haitians affected by the earthquake that year.
He established ‘TwitChange.com,’ which hosted Twitter charity auctions on eBay. Celebrities retweeted the tweets of those who won the auction and donated to a specific charity. The campaign was successful, and it even won the award for ‘Most Creative Social Good Campaign.’ Along with web designer Chad Kellough, he launched ‘HopeMob.org,’ a charity site in which a specific person’s story was chosen through voting, and then funds were raised to meet the need. It initially charged a percentage of funds raised to cover its own expenses, but by the end of the year, it had become entirely non-profit. In 2014, Shaun King left HopeMob. Shaun King left the ‘Courageous Church’ in 2012, after four years, due to personal stress and disillusionment.
He began writing about incidents in the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in 2013 as an international activist movement to protest violence and racism against black people. King began contributing articles to the politically liberal website Daily Kos’ on topics ranging from civil rights to violence in public places and police brutality, particularly against black people. In August 2015, he founded the Justice Together organization to expose police brutality and persuade local politicians to work for change. However, he closed it down the following year. He was named senior justice writer for the ‘New York Daily News.’ Until August 2017, he continued to report and write for the American newspaper. He later became the Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project’s Writer-in-Residence.
He also became a contributor to the award-winning news publication ‘The Intercept.’ Previously, in December 2016, he worked as a political commentator for ‘The Young Turks.’ The Washington Post, one of the leading American newspapers, credited him with successfully spearheading the social media campaign that resulted in the identification and arrest of three men responsible for the assault on DeAndre Harris at the Unite the Right rally (August 2017). King, along with others, co-founded the Real Justice PAC in 2018 to assist in the election of reform-minded prosecutors at the county and city levels. He appears on the site in two podcasts: ‘The Breakdown with Shaun King and ‘Married to the Movement’ (along with his wife).
Shaun King’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.