Sidni Shorter
Salt Lake Community College has named Sidni Shorter as its first Minority Business Center director. Shorter served as CEO of the Utah Black Chamber since the spring of 2022 and has experience as a small-business owner, partner relations and community development expert, and working with nonprofits and federal grant initiatives. Before moving to Utah, Shorter acquired and ran the finance and accounting firm Execute Now in Louisiana. She also held executive director and director roles at Louisiana Heath and Rehabilitation Center and at Louisiana Housing Alliance. At Nerjyzed Entertainment, she helped establish the first and only woman-led African American-owned video game studio producing Xbox 360 content. Shorter also developed entrepreneurship courses for Baton Rouge Community College as well as Social Impact Investment curriculum for a national client. She spent three years managing the largest Red Cross operation in the world and returned to Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina to lead the workforce development On-The-Job program for the city of Baton Rouge through the National Emergency Federal Grant. The Minority Business Center is the result of a Minority Business Development Agency grant awarded to SLCC last fall by the U.S. Department of Commerce to assist minority-owned businesses. The center will be located at SLCC’s Miller Campus as a division of The Mill Entrepreneurship Center.
