Larry Donnelly is a Boston attorney who is a Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Galway. Formerly active in politics and government in Massachusetts, he is now a frequent media commentator on politics, current affairs, and law in Ireland and the U.S. He is also a political columnist with TheJournal.ie and Boston Irish magazine.

Shana Cohen has been Executive Director of TASC since 2017 and currently leads on the organisation’s democracy work. In addition, Shana is an Affiliate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She has published on economic policy and class formation, civil society, social action, and social activism, as well as social change in North Africa. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an A.B. from Princeton University.  Before joining to TASC, she was Deputy Director of the Woolf Institute in Cambridge. Shana also has extensive experience working with NGOs and community-based organisations worldwide. 

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