Margaret Gould

Alumni Update:

Meg is in her second year at Columbia Law School, where she is focusing on international human rights and criminal law. Last summer she interned at AdvocAid, a holistic defense organization for incarcerated women in Sierra Leone.

Fellow Bio:

Meg is from Memphis, Tennessee and graduated from the University of Virginia in 2015 with degrees in Global Development Studies and French. She lived and studied one summer in Rabat, Morocco, and spent a semester in France studying the French language and working in an international arbitration law firm. She studied Francophone geopolitics, history, and immigration while in both countries, and her senior thesis joined these interests through an exploration of cultural identity, legal rights, and the intersection of race, religion, and politics within France. She interned in the Special Victims Unit of the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, seeing a localized perspective on the US criminal justice system. While at UVA, Meg was the student member of the University’s Board of Visitors, providing a student voice on issues ranging from financial aid to issues of racial and gender equity. She was also an elected representative to the school’s Honor Committee and served as co-editor of a weekly civic engagement newsletter.