Dr Kathryn McGarry (Chair of ISWRN) is a lecturer in social policy in the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University. Her research interests include gender and risk, prostitution policy and discourse analysis. She is participated as an expert academic witness in the recent Irish government consultation on proposed change to prostitution legislation in Ireland, calling for a social justice response to prostitution. She is currently chair of the board of the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland.