Her published work has appeared in the Far Eastern Economic Review, the New Straits Times, and Malaysiakini. She served as Managing Editor of Praxis, the quarterly magazine of the Bar Council Malaysia, from 2018 to 2020. Her published books include At the Forefront of Nation Building: Perspectives from the Administrative and Diplomatic Service (UiTM Press, 2014).
Sheena also writes for television and the stage. Her theatre credits include Puppets (1994), The Fat Girl's Revenge (2000), and Motherland, which was featured at the Feminist Perspectives of Legal Theory Workshop in 2019 in conjunction with the Women's Centre for Change and the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development.
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She joined AWL in 2011 and was among the first to develop a legal literacy programme for women on Capital Radio, which she co-wrote and co-presented weekly. As President from 2019 to 2021, she co-organised the Women Lawyers' Conference 2019 and, as the pandemic unfolded, led AWL's pivot to a series of webinars addressing the challenges faced by members. She also laid the groundwork for AWL's Resilience Programme during this period.