About The Author
Margaret Maxwell McLaughlin
Before retiring to Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 2019, Margaret McLaughlin had over 40 years of federal and non-profit experience in international and national development settings: Peace Corps (Senegal “71-’73 and Jamaica ’77-’79), USAID, Department of State, the Corporation for America AmeriCorps program. With an Ed. D. related to teacher training from the University of Massachusetts, she focused on girls and women in international and domestic development.
Her specific work experience has been in US Title I schools as an English teacher and within educational systems in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia systems, specializing in women in crisis settings. When she is not researching, writing and offering talks on Irish history and women’s voices, she is volunteering as a life coach in the women’s unit of the Barnstable County Correctional Facility.
