All About Nicole Shanahan

I went to RFK's VP announcement in Oakland on March, expecting Tulsi Gabbard to be announced as his pick. When he announced it was Nicole Shanahan, I didn't know who she was, but it did NOT take long for her to win me over. It's easy to see why Bobby Kennedy picked her. If you scroll down the page and watch her video interviews, you'll see she is exceptionally bright, and extremely driven to create positive changes for our country. 

Shanahan and Kennedy would be a great team because they are both passionate workaholics. I have no doubt that if these two were in the White House, they'd be able to get more done in the first year, than Biden and Harris were able to get done in FOUR years!

Shanahan's father was a bright man, but he struggled with mental health issues and was unable to support his family. So Nicole was supported largely by her Mother, who had to support her 2 kids with Food Stamps. This has given Nicole a real understanding of how assistance programs can be critically helpful for struggling families. I can relate to this, because I, too, was raised by a single Mom (who is half Chinese), and an Irish father who was very smart (even graduated from Stanford!) but he struggled with depression, and we were raised on food stamps as well. 

Shanahan is one of the many lifelong Democrats like myself, who have become extremely disappointed in the corruption that seems to have poisoned the Democratic party. 

There are a LOT of people who are encouraging (some pleading) her to run for Governor, and I could not agree more. She would make a fantastic governor. Sorry but it is time for Newsom to go. So many of us Californians just cannot deal with his hypocrisy anymore. 

You can see her lots of video interviews, below. 

RFK Jr. VP pick Nicole Shanahan, her first ever video in high definition

Bobby Kennedy: The Campaign Trail and Promoting National Unity

VP pick Nicole Shanahan went through 'deep vetting process,' RFK Jr. says

I loved this interview with Nicole Shanahan on Sage Steele's podcast (listened to it 3 times)!  It really shows you how savvy she is. Having been raised by a mother who was on food stamps, she had to learn how to work extremely hard to get ahead in life. She has such a great story about how she got her first job by offering to work for FREE. She applied to MANY different companies, and just one accepted her, but it worked out really well for everyone. Having been raised on food stamps myself, I know how it is to feel like you have to work harder than the average person, to get ahead in life, so I really appreciate that Bobby picked her as a candidate. I'm part Asian like she is, and I can tell you that in Chinese Culture, we HATE waste. Nicole would certainly be a great person to figure out how we can save a LOT of money in the U.S. budget, stop wasting money (like the trillions of dollars that were blown on the Covid pandemic) and put our money towards things that really matter.  She also shares details of how she was chosen as Bobby's VP, and they welcomed her with open arms when they realized how much her values were aligned with RFK's!  

RFK's VP: Nicole Shanahan |The Sage Steele Show

https://t.co/TBHBshT6Ic Beautiful message from Nicole Shanahan.

— The Water Girl SF (@TheWaterGirlSF) August 30, 2024

 

Nicole Shanahan on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

 

Nicole Shanahan Delivers Remarks in Kittery, Maine

Nicole Shanahan from ClearAccessIP interviewed by Premier Cercle

Nicole Shanahan, CEO of ClearAccessIP at the IP Seminar @ Volvo Cars

First TV Sit Down with RFK Jr.'s VP Nicole Shanahan (Full Interview)

RFK Jr. Running Mate Nicole Shanahan

Council of the Canceled

This information below is pasted from the Kennedy24 website.  You can also check out her YouTube channel, Instagram, and her page on X.com. Sorry if the text spills over into the right column, I am not particularly tech savvy and don't know how to keep it within the middle column, so I recommend viewing the information on the Kennedy24 website. 

Nicole Shanahan

Nicole Shanahan is an attorney and tech entrepreneur in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work on behalf of honest governance, racial equality, regenerative agriculture, and children’s and maternal health has put her at the forefront of many of the country’s most urgent needs.

“Healthy planet, healthy humans” is how Nicole describes the throughline of her career, which has long been centered around people, health, and the environment. She is the founder and president of Bia-Echo Foundation, a private foundation that invests in innovative changemakers who are tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges – reproductive equality and longevity, criminal justice reform, a healthy and livable planet, and more.

Early in her career, Nicole founded and was CEO of ClearAccessIP, a patent management company utilizing AI and automation to support the innovation economy. She is a fellow at Stanford Law School’s CodeX, where she launched a multidisciplinary criminal justice reform effort with the San Francisco District Attorney Office that inspired a powerful partnership with the Stanford Computation Policy Lab (now at Harvard). Her work, particularly building innovative algorithmic tools to guide high-stakes decisions, leverages advances in data science that allows for policy impact to be studied at unprecedented scales.

Among other achievements, Nicole is the recipient of the CALI Excellence For The Future Award and Santa Clara Law School’s Young Alumni Rising Star Award. She has been recognized as a Top 50 Femtech Healthcare Influencer & Longevity Leader and a San Francisco Business Times’ 40 Under 40 leader for her work as a trailblazer running organizations at the forefront of ethics in AI and access to justice. She has long been committed to issues at the intersection of tech, law, and justice and regularly helps facilitate high-level forums with global leaders, including Stanford Law’s Future Law conference.

Healthy Planets, Healthy Humans

As part of her involvement with regenerative agriculture and carbon sequestration efforts, Nicole supports organizations committed to promoting soil health and making farming carbon neutral. She was the executive producer of the groundbreaking 2020 film Kiss the Ground and the 2022 film Evolver.

Policy & Scientific Research

In 2019, Nicole founded the Bia-Echo foundation and concentrated her efforts on philanthropy. Initial investments and projects led by Bia-Echo include the launch of the world’s first Center for Reproductive Longevity and Equality at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, as well as the Stanford Computational Policy Lab to drive social impact on criminal justice reform via data analysis and technical innovation.

Tech Law & AI

While in law school, she founded and was CEO of ClearAccessIP, an AI patent analytics company focused on the balance between the power of modern-day computing technology with the realities of how lawyers practice.

Criminal Justice Reform

As a fellow at Stanford Law School’s CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, Nicole launched the Smart Prosecution project, a multidisciplinary effort focused on criminal justice reform.

 

Early Years

Nicole was brought up through the Oakland public school system before securing an athletic scholarship to attend Saint Mary’s College High School in Berkeley. At the University of Puget Sound in Washington, she studied Asian Studies, Economics, and Mandarin Chinese while running varsity cross country and working for a children’s non-profit. She attended law school at Santa Clara University, where she was an exchange student at the National University of Singapore.

Raised in Oakland, California, Nicole faced adversity early on. Her mother, a Chinese immigrant, struggled to make ends meet before becoming an accountant, and her father struggled with mental health and substance abuse issues. But growing up with very little helped Nicole learn to overcome challenges by harnessing the human spirit’s power to heal. It also made her creative and resourceful, with a strong work ethic; her first job was bussing tables at a local burger joint at age 12. 

Nicole, who speaks conversant Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, is an avid outdoorswoman and loves to surf, hike, and snowboard. She is a devoted mother to daughter Echo and, together with fiancé Jacob Strumwasser, nurtures a home dedicated to healthy living, growing their own food, and enjoying time in nature as much as possible. They also have two dogs – one named Higgs for the theoretical particle that holds all matter together and the other named Bowser adopted from the Malibu farmers market.

Thanks so much, Nicole, or all you've done for the Kennedy Campaign, and for the MAHA Movement! GO TEAM AMERICA!!!!!