Alumni
Our graduates have made an important contribution to social policy and research in relation to immigration, ethnicity and antiracism in Ireland and abroad. Some examples:
David Walsh(1997-8) was Sergeant in Charge of the Garda (Irish Police) Racial and Interculturalism Office and is currently with the youth department of the Garda Community Relations Section.
Tara Coogan (1997-8) is working in the Equality Authority as a development officer in relation to mainstreaming in the health services. After graduation she worked with the Traveller community in Tallaght.
Dr Amy Horde (1997-8) is teachings Sociology in University College Dublin.
Dr Niamh Humphries (1997-8) co-wrote a report on the housing needs of BoMphil Graduation 2005snian refugees for Clann Housing Association and is working as a researcher with the Royal College of Surgeons, on a project on Nurse Migration.
Fiona Yule(1997-8) works with the Office of the Refugee Application Commissioner.
Anna Fiona Keogh (1998-9) wrote two reports for Pavee Point Traveller Centre: ‘Violence against women in the Travelling Community’, and ‘Traveller Child Poverty’, and was a researcher with the Trinity College Children’s Research Centre; she was teaching a course on ethnicity and social policy for the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies. She has trained as a dance therapist.
Dr Petra Aigner (1998-9) teaches Sociology at the University of Linz.
Karen Lynch (1998-9) works as Third Secretary with the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Anne Donaghy (1998-9) was working in Calcutta with the Edith Wilkins Hope Foundation and completed a Masters in Social Work.
Richard Tomkin (1998-9) was medical coordinator with SPIRASI’s Centre for the Care of Survivors of Torture, Dublin.
Imelda Dyas (1998-9) is working in the Department of Social Protection as the Director General’s Office dealing with parliamentary questions.
Kathryn O’Donnell (1999-2000) is Facilitator of the European Union EQUAL Community Initiative in the Duhallow region, assisting the unemployed and asylum seekers and refugees in accessing employment, training and education opportunities.
Glikeria Arapi (1999-2000) is Project coordinator and trainer in seminars on intercultural and human rights education. Founding member of OSMOSIS – Centre for the Arts and Intercultural Education (Greece). MPhil Graduation 2002-03
Terry Madden(1999-2000) is Chief Welfare Officer in the Housing Welfare Section, Dublin City Council and is involved in Dublin City Council’s Social Inclusion Unit.
Don Niaill(1998-9) is Resident Director, Ireland of The Council on International Educational Exchange.
Derek Byrne (1998-9) worked with Dublin’s AIDS Alliance and was co-ordinator of a Certificate course in Addiction Studies, facilitated by Community Response and accredited by NUI Maynooth.
Siobhán McKenna (1999-2000) is executive assistant with the London office of the Open Society Institute, part of the George Soros Foundation network.
Natalie McDonnell (1999-2000) was Information and Education Officer with Emigrant Advice, Dublin, and worked with Treoir, the Federation of Services for Unmarried Parents and their Children. She has trained and is practicing as a barrister -in-law.
Christine Dibelius (1999-2000) was researcher with Clann Housing Association, Dublin.
Inbal Sansani(1999-2000) graduated from the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C. in May 2003 and works for the law firm of Herrick, Feinstein LLP in September 2003.
Pat Guerin (1999-2000) was outreach worker with the Irish Refugee Council and the editor of the IRC magazine, Asyland. Louise Lesovich (1999-2000) worked for the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee and is currently working as an independent researcher.
Dr Carla De Tona (1999-2000) worked as postdoctoral fellow with the Migrant Networks project, Trinity Immigration Initiative TCD and was teaching modules on immigration and on gender and ethnicity, for the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Dr Elaine Moriarty (1999-2000) works as postdoctoral fellow with the Migrants Careers project, Trinity Immigration Initiative TCD, and teaches the methodology and the social policy courses for the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Dr Christian Gheorghiu (1999-2000) completed his PhD in Sociology, Trinity College Dublin.
Svetlana Drakulic (2000-1) works in logistics (Supply Section) for the UN Mission in DR Congo.
Emer McCarthy (2001-2) was integration worker with the Fatima Mansions Community Development Project.
Karla Kelly (2000-1) was working for the Bristol City Council as a Community Cohesion Officer – working with new and old BME groups on integration and mutual understanding; she published ‘A Maze in Stories – Deconstructing and Confronting Identity’ in Auto/Biography, Vol. IX, Numbers 1&2, pp. 21-31, 2001
Marna Carroll (2000-1) was an intern at SAHRDC in Delhi and worked for the Refugee Council, Leeds, UK.
Adrian Langan (2000-1) was selected as the Young European of the Year and worked as Executive Director with Bill O’Herlihy Communications and Labour Party operations manager.
Remba Osengo (2000-1) was a member of the Reception and Integration Committee and is a pastor with the Christ Apostolic Church.
Gabriel Okenla (2000-1) was the Executive Director of the Pan African Organisation, Dublin.
Rosaleen McDonagh (2000-1) was a development officer with the National Traveller Women’s Forum, and now works with Pavee Point on violence against women. She has written several plays which were produced at the Project Arts Centre, and ran for the Seanad as a Trinity College candidate.
Declan Hayden (2000-1) is Community Development Coordinator with the Community Section in Dublin City Council, with responsibility for New Communities, Equality and Diversity issues and strategy and policy development.
Dawn Hewett (2001-2) was a student at Yale Law School, where she has served as Student Co-Director of the Lowenstein Human Rights Project. She completed the Master’s of Public Affairs program at Princeton University, and worked at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone and on the a transitional justice project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ruiari Quinn (2002-3) is an officer with An Grada Siochána.
Chinedu Onyejelem (2002-3) is the editor of the multicultural weekly Metro Eireann, and was a member of the National Action Plan Against Racism.
Alain Spitzer (2002-3) is a social services worker with the Salvation Army, Montreal. Stephen Colbert (2002-3) is Adult Learning Development Worker for Stirling Council and Communications Lecturer for Falkirk College in Scotland.
Matteo Cullen (2002-3) was teaching English at Fushimi High School and Doda High School, Kyoto, Japan, and has presented a paper in an international conference on popular music in Limerick in July 2004. He is currently doing a PhD at the University of Limerick.
David McInerney (2003-4) is Sergeant in Charge of the Garda Racial and Intercultural Office.
Deirdre Coghlan (2003-4) works as an independent researcher. She has completed research on Trafficking for Forced Labour in Ireland and researched Irregular Migration in Ireland for the MRCI. She is currently researching trafficking with the Irish School of Ecumenics, TCD.
Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic (2003-4) was teaching on the undergraduate sociology course ‘Culture and Society’ and on the evening course ‘Theories of race and ethnicity: an introduction’. She is working on a PhD on Bosnian refugees transnationalism at the Department of Sociology, TCD.
Dr Torben Krings (2003-4) was editorial manager of Translocations: The Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review, DCU, worked for the Equality Authority. He is postdoctoral fellow with the Migrants Careers project, Trinity Immigration Initiative, and is the coordinator of the MSc in European Employment Studies, Department of Sociology, TCD.
Sarah Van Norman (2003-4) was working on a PhD at the European Graduate School in Switzerland in Expressive Arts: Therapy, Consulting, and Education, working for a non-profit organization called Big Brothers Big Sisters as a mentoring coordinator. She has been appointed Director of the Vancouver Art Therapy Institue, a small non-profit graduate school that trains art therapists.
Raluca Munthiu (2004-5) works as policy officer for the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland.
Dr David Landy(2004-5) worked as research assistant for the Institute of International Integration Studies at TCD and taught on the evening course ‘Theories of race and ethnicity: an introduction’. He was teaching the International Migration Studies module for the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies, and in 2009-10 he taught two courses in the Department of Sociology, TCD.
Itayi Viriri (2005-6) was a Policy Officer with the Irish Refugee Council and the coordinator of the EQUAL Transition Supports Project in the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee, and now works for the Immigration Council of Ireland.
Dr Brid Ni Chonnail (2005-6) teaches in the Blanchardstown Institute of Technology and has been awarded a IRCHSS fellowship to research the relationship between migrants and Irish people in Blanchardstown.
Joe O’Brien (2003-4) is policy officer with Crosscare – Migrant Project, formerly Emigrant Advice.
Nicola Yau (2005-6) works for Crosscare – Migrant Project, formerly Migrant Advice.
Elena Moreo (2004-5) worked as research assistant with the Global Networks Project, Institute of International Integration Studies, TCD and is currently working on the Migrant Networks project with the Trinity Immigration Initiative, TCD.
Several MPhil graduates have pursued and are currently pursuing doctoral research at TCD and other Irish, European and US universities, while others have pursued law degrees and other postgraduate degrees in the USA.