Meet Maggie Clancy
Maggie Clancy has worked as a registered nurse in the Syracuse area. Her experiences caring for critically ill newborns and their families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) showed her both the incredible impact individuals can have and the systemic challenges that often prevent people from getting the support they need.
Those experiences inspired her to pursue law as another way to advocate for others and help create meaningful change. She is especially interested in exploring healthcare, public interest, and litigation, and is excited to discover where her legal career takes her.
After graduation, she hopes to build a career that combines her healthcare background with the law to advocate for individuals, solve complex problems, and make a positive impact in the communities she serves.
What is your hometown?
Camillus, New York.
What's a specific moment that made you certain law school was the next step?
My decision to attend law school came from a multitude of smaller moments while working in the NICU. My experience in the NICU consistently exposed me to health disparities and inequalities found within the healthcare system. Eventually, I began to recognize that many of the challenges our patients and their families faced extended beyond the scope of my RN license and beyond what I could address at the bedside. I came to understand that I wanted to influence larger systems rather than simply work within them. Law felt like a way to take some of my nursing skills and apply them on a broader scale. Law school stopped feeling like a possibility and started to feel like the natural next step for me.
What are you most looking forward to about student life at Syracuse Law?
I am looking forward to building relationships with classmates and faculty, getting involved in organizations and opportunities outside the classroom, and finding the areas of law that I feel most connected to during my time at Syracuse Law.