While at Ohio University, Shakur organized extensively as an organizing coordinator with the OU Student Union, served as an LGBTQIA affairs commissioner on student senate, co-founded Black Life Action Coalition, and penned a weekly political column with the post.

Since university, he has worked as a boycott organizer with unite here local 8 in Seattle, lead field organizer with NextGen climate, and have participated in movements in the United States, France, and the Philippines. in 2016, he disrupted a Bill Clinton speech to call his family’s political dynasty out in their racist 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.

For nearly two years, he co-worked on Two Woke Minds, a travel and documentary series centered on people of color. this earned the 2017 Rising Star Grant from GLAAD.

In December 2018, he visited Tijuana, Mexico to get a better understanding of the US’ attack on the human rights of migrants/asylum seekers attempting to enter the United States.

He was recently a co-lead organizer with Black Queer and Intersectional Collective in Columbus, Ohio.