Keishawna Baker

Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. I started acting in church at the age of 12. I was raised in a single-parent home so when my sister was involved in something so was my mom. That meant that I was dragged along to all of her activities, which included acting. I would sit in the rehearsals and watch them on stage or in the front of a classroom and think I can do that and this looks so fun. When I turned 12, I was old enough to start participating. I acted in church plays until I was 18. I then went off to college and received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. While in college, I was inducted into Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. While in college and after college, I got involved in a play or 2 to keep my acting alive. After graduation, I got a job and got settled in working as an engineer. A couple years in, the Lord began to speak to me and I was always uncomfortable in my seat whenever the message was about a person's calling, finding the why to your existence, your purpose, etc. I was at that time also being nudged by God to moved to California to pursue acting. My mom ended up dying of liver and kidney failure due to her Sickle Cell Anemia and it sent me into a miserable week of existence. I wasn't suicidal, but I didn't want to remain on the Earth. I wanted to be with my mom and I felt stuck and purposeless. I thought that if I lived to see 80 it would be decades of just working to pay bills. That only lasted a week because I remember one of the ministers at church telling me not to let the spirit of grief attach itself to me. He said to mourn but shake it off. I leaned on and talked to God a lot in that week. I then made up my mind to leave my comfy, secure engineering life to pursue an uncertain life in Hollywood. I took a year to get my finances together (debts paid and savings padded). I have no regrets and my family is supportive and proud!