Shurna DeCou was already an accomplished journalist before deciding to make a career move. Like many in her profession, she decided three years to hang up her press pass and become a corporate writer. She joins Women in Media to tell her story and about two very big realizations as she made the transition.    

Shurna worked as a newspaper reporter, college instructor, and freelance correspondent in the Cayman Islands.  Her work has been published in Reuters, The New York Times, The Sunday Times (UK), The Miami Herald and BBC Caribbean Service. Her coverage in the 2008 Beijing Olympics provided copy, photographs and radio news to 13 media outlets. For the last three years, Shurna has worked as a corporate marketing writer for a Fortune 500 company.

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Shurna Robbins DeCou worked as a newspaper reporter, college instructor, and freelance correspondent in the Cayman Islands.  Her work has been published in Reuters, The New York Times, The Sunday Times (UK), The Miami Herald and BBC Caribbean Service.

She was the pool journalist and photojournalist for the Cayman Islands athletes competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, providing copy, photographs and radio news to 13 media outlets.

Shurna has travelled extensively throughout the Caribbean, Central America, Southeast Asia and Asia primarily solo and out of her comfort zone. The New Orleans native now resides in the Greater Baton Rouge area where she has worked as a corporate marketing writer for the last three years.