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Shining a spotlight on celebrities and athletes who love to travel. Created and developed by Stacy Steponate Greenberg.Whether it?s on the Broadway stage or inside your television set, the highly talented, Tony nominated Shalita Grant is as resilient and tough as the characters she plays. On NCIS: New Orleans, she is the strong and independent Agent Sonja Percy. On the new Civil War mini-series drama Mercy Street, she plays a ?stoical contraband? working as a laundress. It’s all in a day’s work for Grant, who hails from Virginia and attended the prestigious Juilliard School of Drama on a drama scholarship. When she is not running around performing or running around for exercise, Grant is the celebrity spokesperson for the group The People?s Institue for Survival and Beyond, an organization dedicated to understanding what racism is and how it can be undone. The Overhead Compartment shared a few beignets and caught up with Shalita Grant on her life as an actress, her travels, and how she manages to stay in such good shape while surrounded by some of the best food in the world.The Overhead Compartment with Shalita Grant begins now?..OC: You are now a regular on NCIS: New Orleans and play Agent Sonja Percy a tough...