Nancy Shakir

Nancy Shakir (born August 29, 1939) is an American politician and was a Democratic candidate for Congress for North Carolina's 8th congressional district, which stretches from Charlotte to Fayetteville. Shakir won 14,600 votes (37.30% of the total) and lost to Larry Kissell, who won 24,541 votes (62.70% of the total) in the 2010 primary election.

Shakir resides in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She is the mother of one and the grandmother of three.

Shakir graduated with a BA in History from Rutgers University and a MA in Education Administration from St. Peter’s Jesuit College. Her other studies include Organizational Behavior at Polytechnic in Brooklyn, New York. and graduate studies in History at Rutgers University and Fayetteville State University. Shakir is a member of Kappa Delta Pi, National Honor Society in Education.

A founding member and officer of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, she has also served on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Council for the Social Studies and the New Jersey Center for Civic and Law Related Education. She was a Non-Governmental Agency delegate to the United Nations Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, and she served as a staff member at a National Democratic Convention, as a delegate for the White House Conference on Families and as a Commissioner on the Montclair, N.J. Civil Rights Commission. An anti-racist trainer she has presented at regional and National Teacher Conferences.

Shakir writes opinion editorials for the Fayetteville Observer where she served as a member of the Community Advisory Board. She is a volunteer with the Cumberland County Progressives, hosts a local Progressives cable show and is a member of the Fayetteville Peace with Justice Committee, the Carolina African American Writers Collective and has been a volunteer reader for the blind and a reading buddy in Fayetteville school.