ARTIST/PHOTOGRAPHER

She is the founder and executive director of Cachelle International, Marketing, Photography, and Design Company with a branch located in Wilmington DE and headquartered in Monrovia Liberia. Since its start in 1999, Cachelle International has always striven to provide small business owners and entrepreneurs with professional services that everyone can afford. Now as they move forward into their fourteenth year, Cachelle has established itself internationally, while, according to Shoana, carrying on with their mission to “assist business owners, entertainers, and artists build their image at an affordable cost.” 

Originally from Liberia, West Africa, Shoana moved to the United States in 1990 at the outbreak of the civil war broke in her country. Her family settled in Delaware County, outside the Philadelphia area. Faced with a new society and an entirely new tradition, she had to adjust rather quickly. After adapting to a new culture, Shoana began her quest to earn her place in the communications industry. 

Through Inroads Philadelphia, Shoana began her career as a production assistant at Lower Bucks Cablevision in 1995 where she produced, technically directed, and hosted live programs. In 1996, she moved on to Temple Public Radio where she started out as a producer for their news department. Moving quickly up the ranks due to her eagerness to achieve, she became a reporter. Soon Shoana was offered a position as a production assistant. Within less then a year, she would take on the duties of the interim production coordinator of Temple Public Radio. As an undergraduate, Shoana taught three semesters of classes in radio production for the station and became the voice of the "Sundown to Sunup" feature on WRTI (90.1 FM). As if the radio business and maintaining her status in Temple's honors program was not enough, she became a familiar face on Drexel's channel as a news anchor for Update (a television news program) which airs in Philadelphia.

In January of 1999, Shoana experienced a life changing and significant event; a three-car accident nearly cost her life. At that moment, She realized probably the most important lesson in life…tomorrow is not promised. In May, she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Broadcast Telecommunications and Mass Media from Temple University, and was privileged to have been chosen to be the graduation speaker at Temple's 112th Commencement exercises. After graduation, her career began to flourish as she poured her energy into establishing and developing Cachelle International. CI became the umbrella company for her non-profit project, Cachelle Connection (an organization geared towards promoting and showcasing talent), and Cachelle’s School Of Promise (a school for orphans in Paynesville, Liberia).
Shoana was also Director of Photography for For You Magazine, the first bridal magazine for the engaging African-American Couples.

These past years have been extremely successful for Shoana and Cachelle International. In December 2005, she was selected to photograph her most important client to date, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, the first female president of any country in Africa. That photograph became the official photo of the president. That historic photo is found in every government office and most private offices. At advent of her second inauguration, Shoana was again selected as the official photographer. That historic photograph taken during her historic inauguration is now captured on the first postage stamp of Liberia issued since the country’s civil war. Shoana has also photographed President George W. Bush, Jesse Jackson Jr., and Condoleezza Rice. 

Shoana is currently living in Monrovia, Liberia with her family. Over the past 12 years, Shoana has earned the title of international photographer with her travels throughout the world photographing monumental events. She has worked in the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Britain, the United States, Norway, Uganda, and Liberia. Her most recent claim to fame is, the only female photographer allowed front and center to photograph the 2011 Nobel Peace Award Ceremony in Oslo. Shoana has taught photography for the past 12 years both in the US and Liberia. 
To add to her already crowed agenda, in the fall of 2012, she launched three new initiatives: Young Adult Initiative; an effort designed to train young women in Confidence Building, Hair Care Management and Makeup, Customer Relations, and Business Management Skills. She also launched the Employment Training Initiative, an effort geared to train young males in Business Management, Computers, Photography, and Customer Relations.

The Teacher Training initiative is a vitally necessary program, designed to train young men and women the fundamentals of early learning and elementary education skills. 

In addition to all of these efforts, she runs Cachelle International Creative Arts Center offering programs to stimulate mind and body, build confidence, improve self-esteem, and character building by offering a variety of programs including piano, dance, yoga, art, and vocal proformance.

Shoana’s strength and determination comes directly from her spirituality and belief in God. She believes in always surrounding herself with individuals who posses positive energies. Shoana Solomon is a visionary who lives by one motto; “A woman with vision has no limits.”