
Anne Driscoll
Cognoscenti contributor
Anne Driscoll is an award-winning journalist who has written for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Irish Times and People magazine. Her work investigating wrongful conviction cases for the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and the Irish Innocence Project resulted in the exonerations of three innocent individuals, each convicted of murder in the U.S. or Ireland. She is a two-time Fulbright Scholar in Ireland where she lived for seven years and became an Irish citizen in 2021. Most recently, she has been serving as the president of the board of the Swampscott Tides, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, digital news outlet available for free. As a longtime journalist, Anne Driscoll loves the power of story to inform, engage and connect community.
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My dog Belle is at the end of her life, and I am walking her home
"We are on our own, Belle and I," writes Anne Driscoll, "and I alone can offer her palliative care. So now, we have a new routine: I close the blinds...