[3] In 2005,[3] at age 18, she joined the New York City Ballet, the first Australian to do so.
[1] Her career as a ballet dancer was the cause of several fractured and broken bones.
[1][3][4] Shepherd obtained a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in journalism and broadcasting, and a Graduate Certificate of Radio Broadcasting from Edith Cowan University, and began working for the ABC News Perth as journalist and reporter.
[1] From August 2021 to June 2022[6] she presented the news on Friday-Sunday, while Charlotte Hamlyn was on maternity leave.
[7] Shepherd is the granddaughter of Terri Charlesworth, one of West Australian Ballet's inaugural dancers, and founder of the Charlesworth Ballet Institute.