As an advocate for positive change, Shavel’le creates and implements visions that strengthen communities for the better. Shavel’le is deeply committed to serving the communities she lives, works, and travels in. Her passions are educating and motivating young leaders and driving awareness to a people-centered approach to transportation. A successful day for her is when she can use her resourcefulness and creativity to make a genuine difference for a single individual, a community, or an organization.
Shavel’le is an innovator when it comes to engaging community. She founded and still organizes a major biking event called Mattapan on Wheels created to address issues of safer infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians, provide an opportunity for young people to develop their leadership skills, and bring attention to cycling in the Mattapan community. She co-founded a talk in 2020 called Transportation Talks to bring residents that live in Mattapan, Dorchester, Roxbury, and those that identify as BIPOC together to explore how transportation affects their quality of life. This series was a catalyst to change how municipalities engage community.
Shavel’le Olivier is a undergraduate from Boston College earning her Bachelor’s of Science, double majoring in Marketing and Management and Leadership. She received her masters in Nonprofit Management with a concentration in Organizational Communications at Northeastern University and is now the Executive Director of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition (MFFC). Her recent accomplishments organizationally include supporting her colleagues in providing over $36,000 to 3,400 residents to shop at their local farmers farmers market, encouraging residents to walk over 2 million steps, and securing enough funding to expand its youth work.
She recently completed a graduate certificate at the Boston University School of Public Health and at this time co-founded a consultant agency, Consult LeLa, where she engages young people between the ages of 10-40 in the planning processes happening in their neighborhoods. She is also a Boston Business Journal 40 under 40 2024 nominee and a US Haitian Chamber of Commerce Haitian American Young Professional finalist.