Shannon is an internationally sought-after public speaker who has given keynote addresses, led panel discussions, and headlined events in over ten countries.

Shannon has spoken in front of the Italian Parliament, the UN Human Rights Council, the Explorer's Club, and National Geographic Headquarters. She has given TEDx talks, spoken at The Harvard Club, headlined events at Chicago IDEAS Week and the International Design Conference, and keynoted numerous corporate and university conferences.

She has spoken about: Afghanistan, women's rights, cycling as a tool for mobility justice and equality, gender violence, mountain biking in Afghanistan, art as activism, developing street art education and practice for kids, social justice parenting, solo traveling as a woman, world schooling a teenager, non-profit models versus mutual aid in the foreign aid development model, surviving strokes and reclaiming identity, and how rewilding principles can be applied to social justice work.

Shannon has been interviewed on mainstream news shows like Dateline NBC, Morning Joe, and MSNBC. Outside Magazine profiled her epic ride across the Panjshir Valley as a print feature in 2010, as have Bicycling, the New York Times, The Sunday Times, and numerous other publications in multiple languages. She and her work have been included in several books about the history of women's cycling published in Britain and France. She is the subject of over five films about her work in Afghanistan, including MoveShake, Waking Lions, and Pedal a Revolution by Liv Cycling.

Shannon is the author of two books and is currently working on her third and fourth, a creative archive of the history of Afghan women's cycling and a memoir of memory loss and motherhood in the wake of multiple strokes. She has also co-created a graphic novel, The Rosette, with her daughter, which tells the story of a wildlife conservation superhero adventure.