She was Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Shanahan married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in ; they separated in and divorced in In March , Kennedy named Shanahan as his running mate in his presidential campaign. While in law school, Shanahan was an exchange student at National University of Singapore. Shanahan has spoken about the impact of artificial intelligence AI on law and the legal profession. Shanahan served as executive producer for the films Kiss The Ground and Evolver.
Shanahan is a member of the board of Carbon Royalty Corp. LinusBio , a biotech firm, during a venture funding round in January In , [ 11 ] she established her private foundation , Bia-Echo. In the s and s, Shanahan made various contributions to left-leaning organizations and Democratic political candidates, [ 11 ] including Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and Ro Khanna 's congressional campaigns.
In May , when Robert F. After Kennedy dropped out of the Democratic primaries in October , announcing that he would run in the general election as an independent candidate, Shanahan said she was "incredibly disappointed" and would not support his candidacy.
But in early , she reversed course, and resumed backing Kennedy. In March , Kennedy's campaign manager and daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy , confirmed that Shanahan was on the candidate's "short list" of potential running mates. Shanahan was the richest candidate for vice president in at least 50 years, with a net worth possibly in the hundreds of millions of dollars. For example, the Libertarian Party of Colorado attempted to give its ballot line to Kennedy and Shanahan displacing the national Libertarian Party ticket of Chase Oliver and Mike ter Maat , [ 52 ] but this effort was unsuccessful.
During their campaign, Shanahan and Kennedy expressed divergent views. Shanahan rarely appeared at campaign events and infrequently gave interviews to mainstream outlets. On August 20, , Shanahan said in an interview with podcast host Tom Bilyeu that the Kennedy campaign had discussions with the Trump campaign , and that she and Kennedy were considering whether to drop out of the race and "join forces with" Trump.
