Shannon Sistrunk has a B.A. in Speech Communication from Louisiana Tech University and a M.S. in Applied Communication from Mississippi College. Shannon won the graduate research symposium at MC for her work on recognizing the expression of pain among the other universally accepted facial expressions. She is the owner of Bayou Communications LLC, specializing in training for corporate communication, nonverbal communication, social-engineering, and more.

She is also married and has two children.