Maeve Breathnach

Maeve Breathnach grew up outside of Atlanta, Georgia. She attended the University of Georgia as a Foundation Fellow and was a First Honor Graduate, earning degrees in international affairs and economics.

Inspired by the collective migration stories of family members and DACA recipient high school classmates, Maeve comes to Georgetown Law with the intent to work in immigration law and policy.

Throughout her time in college, Maeve explored numerous organizations. At U-Lead Athens, a local nonprofit serving students from immigrant families, Maeve worked on DACA renewals, assisted with college applications and conducted a project on the program’s student outcome data. She also interned at the Georgia Innocence Project and the Legal Aid DC. Developing her interest in policy work, she served as the Legislative Director for a Georgia State Representative and interned in the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Additionally, Maeve served as fundraising chair for Period Project at UGA and co-founded Project Red.

After graduation, Maeve pursued an MA in Refugee Integration at Dublin City University as a Fulbright Scholar and Government of Ireland International Education Scholarship grantee. Her dissertation focused on forcibly displaced persons experiences navigating the Irish labor market to assess the accessibility and efficacy of supports for finding meaningful employment. She also served as an assistant facilitator for the MELLIE Project at DCU, which is a story-telling and art-based integration project for the university community and refugees and asylum seekers.

Outside of school, Maeve enjoys going on walks and visiting friends’ hometowns and home countries. She speaks Spanish with working proficiency and continues to work on her Irish.