User:Sjoukie Holt

Sjoukie Cooper Holt, born Sjoukie Regina Cooper, a teacher, writer, journalist, poet and business entrepreneur is married to Zelig Alexander Holt of Detroit Michigan. The couple have three children.

She lives in the Georgia suburbs outside of metropolitan Atlanta. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications and French from Columbia College and her MBA from the University of Phoenix in 2006. She began her career in broadcasting as a disc jockey with WWKT in Kingstree S.C. and later became a cameraperson with WCCT –TV 5 in Charleston, S.C. She soon  went on to become a reporter/anchor  with WJWJ-TV, affiliated with South Carolina Public Television. Later she then switched over to newspaper and became a reporter/journalist for,”The State” newspaper in Columbia S.C. "The Beaufort Gazette“ The North County Times” and the “The Houma Courier". After working more than 15 years in Journalism, Sjoukie became a real estate agent with Century 21 Action Realty in Houma, Louisiana where she won awards for “Rookie of the Year” and “Multi-Million Dollar Agent”. After moving to Georgia in 2009, Sjoukie pursued a second career in teaching in Gwinnett County Schools. She worked as a substitute teacher until she completed her alternate teaching certificate in Special Education and became a full time licensed Special Education Teacher. She also worked part-time in real estate and joined three women to form Walii Wataa, a non-profit agency.

She is currently working one her Doctorate's Degree in Education and writing several books she plans to publish in the near future.