Michelle Shanahan, a nonprofit attorney who spent a quarter century in senior roles at National Public Radio, has joined the advocacy organization America’s Public Television Stations as general counsel.

Shanahan joined NPR in January 1997 as assistant general counsel. Through the years, she rose to associate general counsel, senior associate general counsel to deputy general counsel, the title she held when she departed the Washington, D.C.-based news and entertainment provider in February 2022. She also served a four-month stint as acting general counsel a year before she left.