Shaquana Grant-Raysor

BA, VSP

Community Care NAvigator

she/her

 Shaquana helps patients navigate all spheres of their health and helping them to combat barriers to their health and care at the Health Services Center. She became exposed to advocacy when a friend of hers was involved in a domestically violent incident and said, “Using my heart of helping and the internet, I found the appropriate tools and applications to help. When we went to meet with her victim advocate and case manger, Lisa Easterling,  she told me I had done her job. One she found out that I had graduated from Charleston Southern University where I studied English and Spanish; she took me under her wing and started me on this path of advocacy and case management.”  Helping others is what she most enjoys about the work we do at the HSC. In Shaquana’s free time, you can find her singing, writing, coding, gaming, and painting! Originally a city girl from Bronx, New York, but when her father retired she had to follow and set roots in the south. When asked her biggest impact to work her, she says, “Many great case mangers work here and have worked here. When an opening came about, I had to apply. I am glad that I was accepted and I am so happy to be here.” Ethics and working smarter, not harder, drive her work success and values. Her best piece of advice ever given: “Do not let what others say get you down. Do your work and show people how things are done and who you are.”