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At Clemson University Shontavia acts as a connecter between faculty, students, businesses, and other universities to help faculty and students create personal brands and launch successful businesses. Shontavia is also the founder and managing member of LVRG LLC, a content creation company focused on diversifying entrepreneurship.
Shontavia was raised in Aiken and began her career practicing law in Greenville, but she has traveled the world extensively, with stops including New Orleans, Des Moines, Haiti, and Cape Town. While in Cape Town, she studied law under Justice Zak Yacoob (appointed by Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Court of South Africa). Prior to her position at Clemson, she was the Director of the Intellectual Property Law Center and held the endowed Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake University School of Law, a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University College of Law, and an Intellectual Property Attorney at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough. Shontavia currently serves on the SCBIO Foundation Board of Directors. She will complete a Fulbright Specialist appointment to Uzbekistan in the Summer of 2022.
Shontavia earned her Juris Doctor (cum laude) from the University of Arkansas School of Law and her Bachelor of Science in Biosystems Engineering from Clemson University.
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