Nina Hope Shea[1] (born August 17, 1953)[2] is an American international human rights lawyer and international Christian religious freedom advocate.[3][4]
A native of Pennsylvania, Shea graduated cum laude from Smith College, and graduated from the Washington College of Law of American University.[1][5][6] Shea is Catholic.[5][7]
Shea is married to Adam Meyerson, president of The Philanthropy Roundtable. They have three sons.
She is a former director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House, an office which she had helped found in 1986 as the Puebla Institute.[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.[12][13] In January 2009, she was appointed as a commissioner on the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO.[9]
She was appointed as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights.[9]
Shea authored In the Lion's Den (1997) on anti-Christian discrimination. Shea is also the co-author of Silenced: How Apostasy & Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide (2011).[3][14][15]
