Person Place Thing with human-rights lawyer and professor Terry McGovern

Published June 2, 2023 at 10:00 PM EDT

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Human rights lawyer and professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, Terry McGovern, tells us how she was reluctant to embrace her Irish heritage, Katrina Haslip and about a place in Howth, Ireland.

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