Shantel Nock is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Empower With Words College Prep. To alleviate feelings of stress and being overwhelmed with the college and scholarship planning processes, she established the organization to assist parents and students. She successfully provides strategies through individual coaching, group workshops, and college tours to students and their guardians to help them academically and financially navigate the college process. 

To overcome poverty in a rural area, Shantel excelled in academics. This determination resulted in being a Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship Recipient. Through this scholarship, she was afforded the opportunity to receive both a bachelors and masters degree in the Health and Human Services field.

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Shantel is an International and Professional Public Speaker as well as a Leader of Toastmasters International Speaking Organization in Woodbridge, VA. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc and an active servant and youth mentor within her church as well as Gavel Club  facilitator of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. Alexandria-Mt. Vernon Chapter.