Nicole Shanahan - Wikipedia
Nicole Ann Shanahan (born September 26, 1985)[ 1] is an American attorney specializing in Silicon Valley. She was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate in his 2024 independent presidential campaign.
Born in California, Shanahan graduated from the University of Puget Sound and the Santa Clara University School of Law.[ 2] Before law school, she worked as a paralegal and then as a patent specialist at the defensive patent aggregator RPX Corp.[ 2] [ 3] She was a fellow at Stanford Law School's CodeX, Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.[ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Shanahan married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2018; they separated in 2021 and divorced in 2023.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] She reportedly has a net worth over $1 billion, primarily as a result of her marriage to Brin.[ 10] In 2019, she established a private foundation, Bia-Echo, that promotes research to lengthen the human reproductive lifespan.[ 11] [ 12]
In March 2024, Kennedy named Shanahan as his running mate in his presidential campaign.[ 13] Shanahan has questioned the scientific consensus on vaccine safety and efficacy.[ 13] [ 14] [ 15]
