Meg McDonough

Meg McDonough joined RFI’s internship program virtually in the summer of 2020. As a rising senior at the University of Dallas with the intent to pursue law school, McDonough wanted to do something related to policy in the religious freedom space. “I had only seen law firms doing religious freedom work. I had never really considered the research and educational perspective.”

At RFI, Meg worked on the North America Action Team and discovered fascinating connections between her work and those of other action teams including the South and Southeast Asia Action Team. Of her work at RFI, she notes “I hadn’t seen before how religious freedom is so important to promoting other civil liberties and economic freedoms, at home and around the world.”

Meg graduated in the spring of 2021 and is currently attending the University of Texas School of Law, where she continues a focus on religious liberty work with the UT First Amendment Center. Her time at RFI has led to other opportunities including a summer job with Becket Law and her attendance at SaRF UK in England in the summer of 2022. She notes that “the RFI internship is a really great way to spend your time because you’re not simply working on policy in some generic sense, but you are working for a truly important cause and you will see the results of your work down the line.”

She will be clerking for Judge Timothy Tymkovich on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals for the 2025-26 term. She is thrilled to spend the year in Denver learning from an excellent judge.