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Shannon Fioravanti

Shannon LeHere Fioravanti headshot.

Professional Highlights

  • Retired corporate communications professional and speechwriter, Verizon
  • Former radio broadcaster and news reporter in Washington, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia (18 years)
  • Legislative aide in the U.S. Senate; communications policy fellowships with APSA and Kiplinger

Degrees

  • B.S., Journalism, West Virginia University
  • M.A., Journalism, The Ohio State University

Areas of Expertise

  • Speechwriting and public communications
  • Media relations and crisis communications
  • Corporate and government communications policy

Biographical Sketch

Shannon Fioravanti is a retired corporate communications professional and speechwriter whose career spanned journalism and corporate leadership. She began her broadcasting career at WPDX Radio in Clarksburg before working at WMMN in Fairmont and WCLG in Morgantown. She later became a reporter for KDKA in Pittsburgh and advanced to the station’s Washington bureau, where she covered Congress, the Executive Branch, the Judiciary, and federal agencies.

Fioravanti spent the latter part of her career with Verizon, working in Virginia, Philadelphia, and Delaware, where she focused on corporate speechwriting and communications strategy. A fourth-generation West Virginian with family roots in Grafton, she serves on the Visiting Committee in memory of her mother, Rita Riffee LeHere, a 1943 graduate of the WVU College of Education who was deeply committed to her students and to the state.

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