Ciara Burbridge has a Bachelor of Law and Business from University College Dublin and a postgraduate LLM in European law from Edinburgh University. She has over five years’ experience working as a parliamentary assistant to the Chair of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee in the European Parliament. Her previous position was as an assistant and producer for a media and arts women’s empowerment project in Kolkata, India where she lived and worked for two years. She is also a qualified yoga teacher.