Ciara Shanahan is the AIEB Coordinator. She is a qualified community work practitioner with 20 years’ experience of working in the community sector at local and national levels as well as several years’ experience working as a community work educator.
Ciara Shanahan
Ciara previously worked as the Equality for Women Measure Project Coordinator in both the National Traveller Women’s Forum and Galway Traveller Movement. She worked for 5 years as Assistant Lecturer and Fieldwork Placement Coordinator with the Department of Applied Social Studies, NUI Maynooth. Throughout her career she has worked on the issues of accommodation, education, and health with a particular interest in the needs of ethnic minorities and the impact of racism and sexism on people’s access to services.
Ciara is a voluntary board member of Domestic Violence Response, a community led organisation responding to the issue of domestic abuse in Galway city and county.
