Gráinne Malone is a senior at the University of Notre Dame, where she majors and honors anthropology, and minors in peace studies and civil and human rights. She is a recipient of the Hesburgh-Yusko Merit scholarship and a member of the Glynn Family Honors program. From Co. Offaly in Ireland, she represented her country at the world’s first National Youth Assembly on Climate Change, led the climate branch of Comhairle na nÓg, her local youth government and helped produce a Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Policy for Offaly County Council. She is a youth coordinator for the Irish peace and justice organization AFRI, and a media creator for the Irish chapter of World Beyond Wars. On campus, she thoroughly enjoys working with Dr Ian Kuijt, Dr Meredith Chesson and islanders of Inishbofin and Inishark, off the coast of Co. Galway, to create an installation on the island’s village histories for Inishbofin library. Being part of the Catholic Worker community in South Bend is also very important to her.
Gráinne has spent her college summers teaching English and volunteering at a medical unit at ‘Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH)’ in the Dominican Republic, practicing sustainable- community farming in Hawaii, and interning with the National Crime Victim Law Institute in Portland, Oregon. Her passion to learn more about military industrial and prison complexes, human trafficking, immigration, disability rights and international human rights mechanisms fuel her pursuit of a career in Human Rights Law. Gráinne chooses to live with a deep-feeling responsibility that she can be part of the changes she wishes to see in our world.