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Who Was Sheinelle Jones’ Husband? 

The same ingenuity that guided Jones’ career had her thinking fast when she first spied her future husband. “I was a fake tour guide,” she recounted to Northwestern Magazine of leading the then-high school senior through the lakeside campus. Though she was en route to class, “I told him I would take him around because he was cute.” 

From there, they mapped out a decades-long journey. After eight years of dating and two false starts (she previously thought he was proposing when he gifted her a Tiffany’s box with a bracelet inside and then again on a trip to Cancun), the couple found themselves back at the beginning. 

“We were on a trip to Northwestern’s campus,” Jones recounted on Today in 2018. “It was raining outside, and he was like, ‘Let’s go over by our little spot on the lake.'” Though she was hesitant to get wet, he convinced her to let the rain fall down, then dropped to one knee. 

She and the Nigerian-born consultant—a managing partner at UAO Consulting and an avid triathlete—wed in her native Philadelphia in September 2007, going on to welcome son Kayin in August 2009 and twins Clara and Uche in July 2012.

“With all three of my children, I try to show them that they’re ALL a team,” she’s told Today, “and they have to take care of each other.”