Thank you for visiting the official website for Survivor Activist & Storyteller Shanon Lee.
A driven individual with a passion for writing, Shanon Lee has served clients from all over the world. She has more than 10 years of combined professional experience creating digital content for entrepreneurs, small business owners, marketing companies and digital publications.
With a background in human resources and mental health counseling, Shanon often writes about business and health. However, she is most known for her essays on cultural, social and political issues. Shanon is a Contributor to Forbes and The Lily at The Washington Post. Her bylines include Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Marie Claire, Playboy, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Redbook, Refinery29, Women’s Health, Time Out New York Magazine and Prevention Magazine. She leads on-site creative nonfiction and journalism workshops in partnership with local DMV nonprofits and online writing workshops for The Writer’s Center.
Shanon is a Featured Speaker, Interview Panel Participant and Social Commentator for local, national and international TV, radio, livestream and podcast programs. Her features include BBC Radio, National Geographic, HuffPost Live, The Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed, Real Simple, NY Magazine, Writer’s Digest, Poets & Writers Magazine, TRT World’s The NewsMakers, TV One’s For My Woman and the REELZ Channel’s Scandal Made Me Famous. She is a Women’s Media Center SheSource Expert, and an official member of the National Speakers Bureau for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) and the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN). Shanon is the writer, producer and director of the short film Marital Rape Is Real.
A member of the Omega Zeta chapter of Chi Sigma Iota, Shanon possesses a Bachelor’s degree in Human and Social Services Administration from Bellevue University, a Graduate Certificate in Addictions from Kaplan University and is a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling candidate at Walden University. She is a member of the 2019 Women’s Media Center’s Progressive Women’s Voices cohort and an alumna of the 2018 THREAD @ Yale storytelling program, the 2017 Inner Loop Writer-in-Residence program and the 2016 Association of Opinion Journalists/Poynter Institute Minority Writers Seminar.
