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'''Nicole Shanahan''' (born September 16, 1985)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nicole Ann Shanahan, Born 09/26/1985 in California {{!}} CaliforniaBirthIndex.org |url=https://californiabirthindex.org/birth/nicole_ann_shanahan_born_1985_17093871 |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=californiabirthindex.org}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=March 2024}} is an American technologist, attorney, and running mate in [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]'s [[2024 United States presidential election|2024]] [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign|independent presidential campaign]]. Based in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]], she first donated US$4 million to his campaign for [[Super Bowl]] advertising.<ref name=OBrienFeb12>{{cite news |last=Davis O'Brien |first=Rebecca|date=February 2, 2024 |title=Meet the Woman Who Helped Pay for That R.F.K. Super Bowl Ad |work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/nicole-shanahan-rfk-super-bowl-ad.html}}</ref> Her candidacy for vice president was reported by ''[[Mediaite]]'' on March 16, 2024,<ref>{{cite news |publisher=Mediaite |date=March 16, 2024 |title=EXCLUSIVE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Expected to Tap Nicole Shanahan as Running Mate |url=https://www.mediaite.com/news/exclusive-robert-f-kennedy-jr-expected-to-tap-nicole-shanahan-as-running-mate/|access-date=March 26, 2024}}</ref> and confirmed by Kennedy on March 26.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Trudo |first=Hanna |date=2024-03-26 |title=RFK Jr. announces Nicole Shanahan as VP pick |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4555125-rfk-jr-announces-nicole-shanahan-as-vp-pick/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=The Hill |language=en-US}}</ref>
'''Nicole Shanahan''' (born September 16, 1985)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nicole Ann Shanahan, Born 09/26/1985 in California {{!}} CaliforniaBirthIndex.org |url=https://californiabirthindex.org/birth/nicole_ann_shanahan_born_1985_17093871 |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=californiabirthindex.org}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=March 2024}} is an American technologist, attorney, and running mate in [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]]'s [[2024 United States presidential election|2024]] [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign|independent presidential campaign]]. Based in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]], she first donated US$4 million to his campaign for [[Super Bowl]] advertising.<ref name=OBrienFeb12>{{cite news |last=Davis O'Brien |first=Rebecca|date=February 2, 2024 |title=Meet the Woman Who Helped Pay for That R.F.K. Super Bowl Ad |work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/nicole-shanahan-rfk-super-bowl-ad.html}}</ref> Her candidacy for vice president was reported by ''[[Mediaite]]'' on March 16, 2024,<ref>{{cite news |publisher=Mediaite |date=March 16, 2024 |title=EXCLUSIVE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Expected to Tap Nicole Shanahan as Running Mate |url=https://www.mediaite.com/news/exclusive-robert-f-kennedy-jr-expected-to-tap-nicole-shanahan-as-running-mate/|access-date=March 26, 2024}}</ref> and confirmed by Kennedy on March 26.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Trudo |first=Hanna |date=2024-03-26 |title=RFK Jr. announces Nicole Shanahan as VP pick |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4555125-rfk-jr-announces-nicole-shanahan-as-vp-pick/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=The Hill |language=en-US}}</ref>


Shanahan was married to [[Google]] co-founder [[Sergey Brin]] until their divorce in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Price|first1=Rob|last2=Langley|first2=Hugh|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cofounder-sergey-brin-nicole-shanahan-divorce-court-filings-2022-6|title=Court filings reveal details of Google cofounder Sergey Brin's divorce from his wife, attorney Nicole Shanahan|work=Business Insider|date=June 17, 2022}}</ref>
Shanahan was married to [[Google]] co-founder [[Sergey Brin]] from 2018 until their divorce in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Price|first1=Rob|last2=Langley|first2=Hugh|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cofounder-sergey-brin-nicole-shanahan-divorce-court-filings-2022-6|title=Court filings reveal details of Google cofounder Sergey Brin's divorce from his wife, attorney Nicole Shanahan|work=Business Insider|date=June 17, 2022}}</ref>


== Early life ==
== Early life ==

Revision as of 20:42, 26 March 2024

Nicole Shanahan
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Puget Sound
Santa Clara University School of Law
Political partyIndependent (2023–present)
Democratic (before 2023)
Spouse(s)
Jeremy Asher Kranz
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(m. 2013; div. 2015)​

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(m. 2018; div. 2023)​

Nicole Shanahan (born September 16, 1985)[1][better source needed] is an American technologist, attorney, and running mate in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 2024 independent presidential campaign. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she first donated US$4 million to his campaign for Super Bowl advertising.[2] Her candidacy for vice president was reported by Mediaite on March 16, 2024,[3] and confirmed by Kennedy on March 26.[4]

Shanahan was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin from 2018 until their divorce in 2023.[5]

Early life

Shanahan grew up in Oakland, California,[6][7] In a 2023 interview with People magazine, Shanahan said that she had a "very hard" childhood marked by traumatic experiences; she described her father, who died in 2014, as a sufferer of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.[6] She said that her mother, who was born in China[8] worked as a maid before becoming an accountant.[6][7]

Shanahan attended Saint Mary's College High School in Berkeley, CA before moving to Washington state, where she received a bachelor's degree from the University of Puget Sound, where she studied Asian studies, economics, and Mandarin Chinese.[6] Before law school, she worked as a paralegal and patent specialist,[6][9] the latter role at defensive patent aggregator RPX Corp.[9]

Career

Shanahan graduated from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2014.[10] In law school, she was an exchange student at National University of Singapore.[11] She became interested in patent law; after becoming a lawyer, she became the founder and CEO of legal tech company ClearAccessIP,[10] based in Palo Alto.[9] She sold the company to a competitor, IPwe, in 2020.[11][9]

She has spoken on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on law and the legal profession.[12] She was a fellow at Stanford Law School's CodeX, Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.[8][10][13]

Shanahan served as executive producer for the films Kiss The Ground in 2020, and Evolver in 2022.[14][15]

Shanahan is a member of the board of Carbon Royalty Corp.[16] She invested in Linus Biotechnology, Inc. (LinusBio), a biotech firm, during a venturing funding round in January 2023.[17] In 2023, she joined the board of Extreme Tech Challenge.[18] She is the "Global Joy Officer" and a member of the board at the Sloomoo Institute.[19]

Charitable contributions

In 2018, Shanahan helped fund and launch the Center for Female Reproductive Longevity and Equality within the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.[20]

In 2019,[11] she established her private foundation, Bia-Echo.[21] The foundation is named after Bia, the ancient Greek goddess associated with energy.[8] In 2022, Shanahan's then-husband, Sergey Brin, donated at least $23 million in shares of Alphabet (Google's parent company) to Bia-Echo.[22] In 2019, Shanahan pledged to contribute $100 million over five years, mostly for research in reproductive longevity (programs that help women become pregnant later in life).[11][23] Other beneficiaries of the contributions include programs that aim to overhaul the criminal justice system and climate change,[23] as well as programs on nutrition and its link to fertility.[a]

In 2022, Shanahan gave $70 million to Blue Meridian Partners, which makes grants to nonprofits to help poverty.[26]

Political contributions and involvement

In the 2010s and 2020s, Shanahan made various contributions to left-leaning organizations and Democratic political candidates.[11] In 2020, Shanahan was a "major donor" for Measure J, a criminal justice reform referendum in Los Angeles County.[27] Also in 2020, Shanahan contributed $150,000 to support George Gascón in his challenge to incumbent Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey.[28]

During the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, Shanahan contributed $2,800 each to the campaigns of Marianne Williamson and Pete Buttigieg.[21] She co-hosted a fundraiser for Buttigieg in December 2019, along with other wealthy Silicon Valley figures.[21][29] After Joe Biden became the presumptive nominee, she supported the Biden presidential campaign, contributing $25,000 to the Biden Victory Fund.[21][2]

Role in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign

In May 2023, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was challenging Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, Shanahan donated the maximum of $6,600 to Kennedy's campaign. After Kennedy dropped out of the Democratic primaries in October 2023, instead announcing that he would run in the general election as an independent candidate, Shanahan said she was "incredibly disappointed" and would not support his run. In early 2024, however, Shanahan reversed course, and resumed backing Kennedy's candidacy.[2][30] She donated $4 million to a super PAC to pay for a 30-second television Super Bowl ad, aired during Super Bowl LVIII, supporting the campaign.[2] In addition to funding the ad's broadcast, Shanahan was also a "creative force" behind the ad, the total cost of which was variously said to be $5 million[30] or (according to the super PAC's co-founder) $7 million.[2][31] Numerous Kennedy family members have denounced his campaign, and criticized the Super Bowl ad for reusing footage from a 1960 presidential campaign ad supporting John F. Kennedy.[30][31] Kennedy later apologized—saying "I'm so sorry if the Super Bowl advertisement caused anyone in my family pain"—while also saying that his campaign was not involved with the super PAC's ad, as coordination between independent expenditure groups and campaigns is prohibited by law.[21][31]

In March 2024, Kennedy's campaign manager and daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, said that Shanahan was on the candidate's "short list" of potential running mates.[32] The campaign has considered other candidates as well, such as Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura.[30][33] On March 26, 2024 The Wall Street Journal reported she would be Kennedy's pick for vice president.[34]

Personal life

In 2013, Shanahan married Jeremy Asher Kranz, a San Francisco Bay Area investor[9] and finance executive.[35] They divorced in 2015.[36]

Shanahan met Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, in the summer of 2014, at a yoga festival in Lake Tahoe.[2] They married in 2018.[2][30] They have a daughter together,[6] born in 2018.[23] Brin and Shanahan maintained an estate at Point Dume in Malibu, California, purchased in 2020.[37]

Shanahan and Brin separated in December 2021,[6][38] and Brin filed for divorce in January 2022.[38] Shanahan and Brin signed a prenuptial agreement; during the divorce proceedings, Shanahan's attorneys argued that she signed the prenuptial agreement under duress, and in mediation sought more than $1 billion of Brin's $95 billion fortune.[35] The divorce was finalized in 2023.[2][30] In 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported that a reason for the breakup was a "brief affair" in 2021 between Shanahan and Elon Musk.[38][35] Shanahan[6] and Musk denied the report.[39] The Wall Street Journal said: "We are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting."[6]

In 2023, Shanahan held a "love ceremony" of commitment with Jacob Strumwasser, who is an advisor at Lightning Labs, a bitcoin software company; she described the event as a handfasting ceremony influenced by Druidic tradition.[40] The pair met at the Burning Man festival in summer 2022.[40][41]

Notes

  1. ^ The Bia-Echo Foundation was one of several groups that provided funding for the White House Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, in advance of a 2022 report by the task force.[24] The foundation also supported a daylong conference of experts in November 2022, in Boston, sponsored by Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the school's Food and Nutrition Innovation Institute, "to explore the state of the evidence and evidence gaps regarding the relationships between food, nutrition, and fertility."[25]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Davis O'Brien, Rebecca (February 2, 2024). "Meet the Woman Who Helped Pay for That R.F.K. Super Bowl Ad". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "EXCLUSIVE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Expected to Tap Nicole Shanahan as Running Mate". Mediaite. March 16, 2024. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
  4. ^ Trudo, Hanna (March 26, 2024). "RFK Jr. announces Nicole Shanahan as VP pick". The Hill. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
  5. ^ Price, Rob; Langley, Hugh (June 17, 2022). "Court filings reveal details of Google cofounder Sergey Brin's divorce from his wife, attorney Nicole Shanahan". Business Insider.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i Maslow, Nick (July 6, 2023). "Nicole Shanahan 'Moving On' 1 Year After Alleged Elon Musk Affair, Sergey Brin Split (Exclusive)". People.
  7. ^ a b "Nicole Shanahan, the Woman at the Center of the Musk-Brin Rift". Bloomberg via Time. July 25, 2022.
  8. ^ a b c "Lawyer, mother and billionaire's ex: Meet Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr's rumoured VP pick". The Independent. March 20, 2024. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
  9. ^ a b c d e Berman, Bruce (April 30, 2020). "IPwe could be a harbinger of change in the patent space". IP Closeup.
  10. ^ a b c "Class Notes: 2014". Santa Clara Magazine. October 30, 2018.
  11. ^ a b c d e "Who Is Nicole Shanahan, woman at centre of Musk-Brin drama?". Bloomberg via Straits Times. July 25, 2022.
  12. ^ "Nicole Shanahan - Transactional Costs and Legal AI: From Coase's Theorm to IBM Watson, and Everything in Between". The Law Lab Channel.
  13. ^ "AI & Hamlet". CodeX Blog. Stanford Law School. June 21, 2016.
  14. ^ "Evolver Tribecca Film Festival". Evolver.
  15. ^ "Kiss The Ground". Kiss the Ground Movie.
  16. ^ "Carbon Royalty Corp". Carbonroyalty.com.
  17. ^ "LinusBio Raises $16 Million to Scale Growth and Deliver Tangible Outcomes" (Press release). Linus Biotechnology, Inc. January 13, 2023.
  18. ^ "Extreme Tech Challenge Welcomes Nicole Shanahan To The Board" (Press release). Extreme Tech Challenge. March 7, 2023.
  19. ^ "The Org - SlooMoo". Theorg.com.
  20. ^ "World's first Center for Female Reproductive Longevity and Equality established at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging" (Press release). Buck Institute. July 25, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
  21. ^ a b c d e Folk, Zachary (March 17, 2024). "Who Is Nicole Shanahan? RFK Jr.'s Possible Running Mate Is A Tech Lawyer Once Married To Google Founder Brin". Forbes.
  22. ^ Sandler, Rachel (August 10, 2022). "Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Just Gave Away Nearly $130 Million Worth Of Shares". Forbes.
  23. ^ a b c Maria Di Mento (September 27, 2019). "Nicole Shanahan Gives $100 Million for Reproductive Research and Other Causes". The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
  24. ^ Ambitious, Actionable Recommendations to End Hunger, Advance Nutrition, and Improve Health in the United States (PDF) (Report). Task Force on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. p. 83. 1. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
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  27. ^ "Major Donor and Independent Expenditure Committee Campaign Statement" (PDF). Lavote.gov. February 1, 2021. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  28. ^ Maloy Moore, Ryan Menezes and James Queally, Here are the mega-donors and police unions pouring millions into the L.A. County district attorney race, Los Angeles Times (November 3, 2020).
  29. ^ Theodore Schleifer, Pete Buttigieg is raising money from Silicon Valley's billionaires — even as Elizabeth Warren attacks him for it, Vox (December 13, 2019).
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  31. ^ a b c Davis O'Brien, Rebecca (February 11, 2024). "R.F.K. Jr. Apologizes to His Family for an Allied Group's Super Bowl Ad". The New York Times.
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  34. ^ Collins, Eliza (March 26, 2024). "RFK Jr. to Name Nicole Shanahan as Running Mate for Presidential Bid". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
  35. ^ a b c Grind, Kirsten; Glazer, Emily (July 25, 2022). "Elon Musk's Friendship With Sergey Brin Ruptured by Alleged Affair". Wall Street Journal.
  36. ^ "Who is Nicole Shanahan, Google co-founder Sergey Brin's ex-wife?". The Statesman. September 16, 2023. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  37. ^ Joshua Bote, Google co-founder keeps Malibu's techie takeover alive with $35M estate, SFGate (June 13, 2023).
  38. ^ a b c Mishra, Stuti (July 26, 2022). "Who Is Nicole Shanahan? Meet the woman at the centre of the Elon Musk-Sergey Brin saga". The Independent.
  39. ^ Rice, Nicholas (July 24, 2022). "Elon Musk Denies Allegation He Had Affair with Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin's Wife Nicole Shanahan". Retrieved March 7, 2024.
  40. ^ a b Maslow, Nicholas (July 5, 2023). "Nicole Shanahan Commits to Partner Jacob Strumwasser in 'Beautiful' Love Ceremony (Exclusive)". People.
  41. ^ Martha Ross. "With Elon Musk, there was no 'moment of passion' and no affair, Sergey Brin's ex-wife says". East Bay Times.
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