Shauna La

Shauna La is an ex-RF engineer turned artist who lives in San Diego, CA. Born on April 2, 1983 in Hattiesburg, MS, she was raised in Columbia, MS where she was an avid competitive computer programmer and alto saxophone player until her sophomore year at Columbia High School. She finished high school at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science(2001) and moved to Baton Rouge where she worked as a WebCT/Publications editor for LSU. She then moved to Chicago and attended Columbia College where she studied art and acting. Afterwards, she moved to New Orleans and began working as an RF engineer, and traveled the country from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Junuea, Alaska while optimizing major mobile networks. After years of painting in her hotel rooms, she decided to quit RF and pursue her artistic dreams, she began painting and exhibiting her art in San Diego and even studied with Academy of Art University, San Francisco. She was asked to work on the film Distances in late 2009 by the writer and director Brandon Marshall. She accepted the role, and it was filmed in the spring of 2010 in Austin, TX.