Superb Woman: Natesha “Shay” Wyrick Cathey

She is a true servant leader. Smart, committed, faithful and loving!

Shay is a born leader. Prior to attending the University of Texas at Austin and Southwestern Christian College, she went to Christian Academy of Oak Cliff and Skyline High School. A proud and loyal member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., she is a wife and mother to three sons and currently the Senior Policy Advisor to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. A past President of the SwCC Alumni Association. She was inducted into the SwCC Alumni Hall of Fame in 2009 and was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters in 2014. An award winning journalist, who also won several scholarships from the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators (now Journalists,) she is also a Sunday School teacher and ministry leader at church, a Cub Scout leader; member of the State Democratic Executive Committee and Dallas Branch NAACP. I Shay has been active in grassroots politics all of her life. In 2002, she was a regional Finance Director for Ron Kirk’s US Senate campaign. Next, she became Senator Royce West’s political director, and in 2004, the 23rd Senatorial District elected her as a delegate to the National Convention in Boston. She puts in the work!