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Biography
Nina Shea is an international human rights lawyer and international Christian religious freedom advocate.
Early life
A native of Pennsylvania, Shea graduated cum laude from Smith College, and graduated from the Washington College of Law of American University. Shea is Catholic.
Career
She is a former director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House. She has served as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom since 1999. She has been a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute since November 2006, and directs the Center for Religious Freedom there.
Writings
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).