Co-Director/WOMEN'S HEALTH
Shanique Ivery is a Board Certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner dedicated to community outreach and the empowerment of each of our mentees. As the Women’s Health Program Director, She empowers our mentees with knowledge of all their body systems while promoting health in ways that can be adapted easily to their daily lives. As the Co-Director in Program Development, Shanique takes pride in creating development plans that aligns with Felicia’s Promises mission, values and commitment to our mentees and our community.
In 2022, Shanique completed her Masters of Science Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. It was great to see how eager and proud our mentees were to witness such a great accomplishment. Shanique continues to dedicate her time to empowering our mentees and inspiring her colleagues.
Shanique emphasized her undergraduate experience at York College, CUNY as the door that opened up her purpose. “It was great to see my professors, who looked like me, be change agents around the world,” says Shanique. In 2015, Shanique and a few of her classmates landed the opportunity to study abroad and worked at local clinics and an orphanage in Haiti. The highlight of this trip was teaching self breast awareness to recognize early changes in the hopes that each girl would spread the new skill to friends and family members. That project was presented in the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Conference in Cape Town, South Africa 2016. At that level, Shanique understood how impactful the work that she signed up for would be.
After graduating with her Bachelors of Science in Nursing, she entered the workforce as an emergency room nurse attaining quality life saving skills, critical thinking skills, and disaster management skills, Shanique was constantly educating the communities she serves. In 2020, another pivotal opportunity to work alongside doctors and nurses from across the United States traveled to Iloilo, Philippines. While working with this private organization, she taught sex education, completed sexual reproductive health screenings, assisted in life saving gynecological surgeries and helped the staff of hospital attain training such as neonatal CPR, BLS to name a couple.