A cultural bridge-builder with expertise in community organizing, project management, and program creation through a public health lens. Shantae also serves on the Oregon Board of Agriculture, representing small-scale producers, and is co-founder of Mudbone Grown, a Black-owned farm enterprise. She sits on the leadership team of the Black Oregon Land Trust. Drawing inspiration from her grandmothers' wisdom about land stewardship and community care, Shantae's work centers on honoring ancestral knowledge while building pathways for the next generation of food movement leaders. As a devoted mother to six children, she balances her roles as parent, healer, chef, and advocate for food justice.

Currently serves as Co-founder and Executive Director of Black Oregon Land Trust, which she established in 2020 to ensure Black farmers and land stewards have secure land access and support. Her background spans early childhood education, midwifery, maternal health, and public policy, having previously worked as an elementary school teacher and midwife attending hundreds of births. She also founded The Womb Room, a holistic wellness platform, and provides ancestrally-rooted birth and postpartum care through her doula services. Qiddist approaches her work with a spirit of abundance and moves at the "pace of relationship," viewing land stewardship as interconnected with community health and liberation. She lives in a tiny home on Mudbone Grown farm in Corbett, where she tends to daily farm duties while leading BOLT's mission to cultivate a new generation of Black farmers and build generational health and wealth through land access.