Renee Shaw was born in Portland, TN, and is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, with a B.A. in political science and broadcast journalism (1994) and an M.A. in corporate communications (1996). For several years Shaw was a reporter and associate producer with WKYU-TV and WKYU-FM, where she earned state and national awards for her radio reporting.
Shaw’s career with Kentucky Educational Television (KET) began in 1997, and in 2005 she launched “Connections with Renee Shaw” on KET, the first statewide minority affairs program. Shaw is a public affairs program producer and co-produces KET’s longest running public affairs program, “Comment on Kentucky.” She is also producer/managing editor and host of KET’s legislative coverage. She is a 2007 graduate of the Leadership Kentucky program and heads Public Relations and Marketing for the First Baptist Church Bracktown, where she is also a Sunday School teacher.