Shannon Sorensen

As SVP of Business and Legal Affairs at NMPA, Shannon leads copyright infringement litigations, represents music publishers' interests in license and settlement agreements, and works on royalty rate-setting proceedings. A former hill staffer, she also handles the bulk of NMPA's policy work, advising on domestic legislative and regulatory matters including copyright, trade, and AI. She is responsible for NMPA's international portfolio and chairs the North American Regional Group of the International Confederation of Music Publishers. Prior to her current role, Shannon was one of NMPA's two primary lobbyists and was instrumental in passing the Music Modernization Act of 2018 which brought licensing for digital streaming into the modern age. She sits on the board of the Copyright Alliance, a trade organization representing all creative industries in the U.S. Shannon was one of the youngest ever graduates of Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School, earning her J.D. cum laude at 22 years old.