She was a Times Mirror Visiting Professor at University of Texas at Austin for the 2005–2006 academic year, where she taught a class she designed on Watergate and the press.
In fall 2012, she joined the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) faculty as a visiting professor for the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs.
She wroteNo matter how many distinguished groups — the International Red Cross, the U.N. High Commissioners — say waterboarding is torture, there are responsible people who say it is not.
[3] Shepard contributed to Washingtonian and People magazines, and wrote for The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.
Their son, Cutter Hodierne, is director of the 2012 Sundance Grand Jury prize for the short film, "Fishing Without Nets", about the Somali pirates from their point of view.
[7] Shepard died from complications of lung cancer at her home in Arlington, Virginia, on April 1, 2023, aged 69.