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Beirne Roose-Snyder, Sr. Policy Fellow

BeirneBeirne Roose-Snyder, J.D., is an experienced advisor and strategist working at the intersections of HIV/AIDS, US. foreign policy, women's health, human rights, and the law.

Beirne has previously been the director of public policy for CHANGE, worked as the managing attorney of the Center for HIV Law and Policy, and been associate counsel for the 2016 Chicago Olympic Bid. She was a Rockwood Fellow in the Gender and Racial Justice Leaders in the HIV Movement cohort, and worked in AIDS services and education in the United States and Northern Ireland.

She has written pieces in The Hill, The Guardian, and The Washington Blade, and has recently published articles on the legal implications of Trump's Global Gag Rule in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, the U.S. contributions to the global anti-gender movement in iFokus, and on the role of contraception in preventing HIV-positive births for the journal BMC Public Health.

Beirne graduated from Earlham College with departmental and college honors in politics, and from Georgetown University Law Center with a juris doctor and a certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies.

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