Shannon is a visual media artist born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work focuses on melding genre film with current issues, using the tropes with in genre film to reflect on societal problems. Her current short Waking Up Dead focuses on how domestic violence is treated with in media, and how the female form is treated and viewed with in the context of the horror genre. She has a BA in Cinema Production from San Francisco State University and will complete her MFA in Film and Media as Art at Emerson College in May 2018. Her drive and focus lay in three areas; producing, production design, and writing. She also has a background in journalism with an entertainment emphasis, features, and news writing.