Dr Rosaleen McDonagh is a Traveller woman with a disability. Originally from Sligo, she is the fourth eldest in a family of twenty children. She worked in Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre for ten years, managing the Violence Against Women programme, and remains a board member. She is a regular contributor to the Irish Times and has written within the framework of a Traveller feminist perspective. Rosaleen’s work as a playwright includes Mainstream, The Baby Doll Project, Stuck, She’s Not Mine, and Rings.