Experience

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  NUI Galway School of Law

  • Ireland
  • Higher Education
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • US Fulbright Scholar

    • Sep 2018 - Present

  • US Fulbright Scholar

    • Sep 2018 - Present

  • US Fulbright Scholar

    • Sep 2018 - Present

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  Griffith College

  • Dublin, Ireland

  • Fulbright Scholar

    • Aug 2013 - Present
    • Dublin, Ireland

    Working with the Irish Innocence Project, teaching 3rd year law students how to investigate and interview as they pursue cases of wrongful convictions in the courts. Advising graduate journalism students on investigative pieces. Teaching undergraduate students how to cover wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice. Research the causes of wrongful convictions found in Irish Innocence Project cases and compare that sample with the contributing factors in the US. Work to promote international understanding of the innocence movement.

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  Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University

  • Senior Reporter

    • Sep 2006 - Present

    As Senior Reporter at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, Driscoll is helping to investigate cases of likely wrongful convictions in which there is no DNA to test. In particular, she is researching cases in which someone has been jailed for life for a murder that he or she appears not to have committed. Her work involves doublechecking facts and documents, locating and re-interviewing witnesses, visiting locations, and conducting other on-site research that the defense attorney may have neglected. She has been part of the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project team of professional journalists and student research assistants probing these wrongful conviction cases since 2006.

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  self employed

  • Journalist, author, publicist, speaker, adjunct professor

    • Jan 1980 - Present

    An author, journalist, and licensed social worker in Massachusetts since 1979, Driscoll has covered a wide range of social issues, including criminal justice, health, homelessness, education, and child development. An award-winning journalist, she was a columnist for the Boston Globe between 1993 and 2000. Over the past thirty years, she has reported for the New York Times, Baltimore Sun, People, Teen People, Health, Real Simple, Parenting and CosmoGirl. Her series of guidebooks for girls, Girl to Girl, were based on research she conducted on girls’ development in the US, England, Ireland, Canada and Australia. She was the primary criminal justice reporter for Ottaway’s Essex County Newspapers between 1980 and 1984. She has been an instructor or adjunct professor of journalism at North Shore Community College since 1986.

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  Irish Innocence Project at Griffith College

  • Dublin, Ireland

  • Journalist Project Manager

    • Sep 2013 - May 2016
    • Dublin, Ireland

    Managing a team of 26 student caseworkers from Griffith College, Trinity College, National University Ireland Galway and Dublin City University and ten pro bono lawyers who are investigating about 30 cases of likely wrongful convictions. Lecturing to the law and journalism students at Griffith College about wrongful convictions and the innocence movement as a worldwide human rights campaign. Organizing the first Irish Innocence Project International Conference on Wrongful Convictions, Human Rights and the Student Learning Experience on June 26, 2015 and the Wrongful Conviction Film Festival on June 27th. Fundraising, event planning and public speaking for the project and to promote understanding of the issue of wrongful convictions.

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  Teak Media Communications

  • Vice President of Business Development

    • May 2005 - Sep 2007

    Driscoll is a licensed social worker who brings passion, sensitivity and insight to her work as a publicist. Committed to the Teak Media mission, she uses her background in journalism and her experience in human services to promote nonprofit organizations and socially responsible companies.