Macken Keefe is a J.D. student at Fordham Law School. Prior to that he worked for City Year in Seattle, providing academic, social, and emotional support to students of under-resourced schools. As a Mitchell Scholar, he studied Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation at Trinity College Dublin, Belfast a resident of Lake Arrowhead, California. A graduate of Michigan State University, he obtained degrees in Political Science and Global and International Studies. Interested in Northern Ireland, he has researched Gordon Allport’s intergroup contact theory, which posits that the negative biases between two people groups can be mitigated by way of positive contact between members of those groups. Serving as a legal intern for a non-profit organization that provides free legal services to asylum seekers, and interning for a judge and a law firm, has solidified his goal of becoming a lawyer who supports marginalized communities. He is also a camp counselor at a camp for children whose parents are affected by cancer and met with a senior once a week as part of program that seeks to combat age-related loneliness, due to COVID-19, in Greater Lansing.

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