Faegre Drinker’s Executive Women’s Forum Presents Maeve Higgins

Our Washington, D.C., office hosted the latest Executive Women’s Forum on May 12, 2022. Led by Faegre Drinker partners Jessica Abrahams and Maureen Hardwick, the in-person event featured author Maeve Higgins and brought together women executives from a variety of industries and professional disciplines. Following introductory remarks from Hardwick, Abrahams spoke with Higgins about her book Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them and fielded questions from attendees.

Higgins is a contributing writer for The New York Times and hosts the podcast Maeve in America: Immigration IRL. She is a comedian who has performed all over the world, including in her native Ireland, Edinburgh, Melbourne and Erbil. Now based in New York, she cohosts Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk — both the podcast and the TV show on National Geographic — and has appeared on Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and WNYC’s 2 Dope Queens.