[5][7] Shea is married to Adam Meyerson, president of The Philanthropy Roundtable.

[5][8][9] She served as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2012.

[3][10][11][9] She has been a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute since November 2006, and directs the Center for Religious Freedom there.

[9] She was appointed as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights.

Shea is also the co-author of Silenced: How Apostasy & Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide (2011).