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Megan Starkey
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Megan Starkey is undertaking a BSc in Psychology in Queens University Belfast. She is due to graduate in summer 2025. She undertook a placement with the New Script for Mental Health campaign in autumn 2024.
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Yusra Abdullah
Iraqi activist, member of Amnesty International, and Lift the Ban Campaigner
Thapelo Mohapi
Political Organiser in Cape Town, South Africa
Steve Mulligan
Steve Mulligan, Four Nations Lead, British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Sinead Quinn
Activist and poet
Shimous Aidaroos
Sudanese high school student
Seán Mac Bradaigh
Assistant Director of Programmes, PPR
Sara Boyce
PPR Mental Health Rights Organiser
Ruth Hamilton-Sturdy
Activist and Artist
Ruben Kondrup
Solidarity and Movement Coordinator, ESCR-Net
Rosie Cowan
Writer and Academic
Rita Ann Higgins
Poet and Playwright
Rachel Powell
Chair of the Women’s Policy Group NI
Rachel Mullen
Co-founder of Values Lab
Bethany Waterhouse-Bradley
Lecturer, Health and Social Care Policy at Ulster University
Pat McGreevy
Chair, Suicide Down to Zero
Paige Jennings
Policy Officer
Nia
Organiser, Domestic Workers Unite, Lebanon
Mick Conlan
Irish Boxer
Mary McManus
Manager, East Belfast Independent Advice Centre
Marie Quiery
Psychotherapist and senior member of BACP
Marguerite
Social Worker
Lisa Morrison
Trainer/Consultant/Public Speaker www.lisamorrison.co.uk
Lisa Costine
Student
Linda Byrne
An ordinary, lucky person
Kerry Melville
Coordinator of the Belfast Food Network
Kellie Turtle
Activist with the Belfast Feminist Network
Kate Clifford
Director, Rural Community Network
Jyles Robillard-Day
Assistant CEO The National Counselling Society
Jyles Robillard-Day
Assisant CEO of the National COunselling Society
Joan Corrigan
Researcher and Advocate in Learning Disability and Mental Health
James McParland
Essayist and historian
Barbara Boyle
Artist
Hugh Ellis
Policy Director - Town and Country Planning Association
Heather Floyd
Community Worker
Geraldine Mitchell
Poet
Fionnuala Kennedy
Right to Work: Right to Welfare activist
Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh
Community and Language Rights Activist
Erin
Activist
Emma Cassidy
PILS Project Officer
Ellen McVeigh
Social Media Coordinator
Elfie Seymour
Organiser with Lift The Ban
Dr. Elizabeth DeYoung
Author and researcher
Dr Brigitte Anton
Policy Assistant
Dr Anne Darcy
Psychologist
Dr Agustina Martire
Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Natural and Built Environment, QUB
Dessie Donnelly
Organiser
Denise Bradley
Manager for Marginalisation
Deirdre Hargey
Minister for the Department for Communities
Dave Rogers
Member of Psychologists for Social Change
Daniel Holder
Deputy Director, Committee on the Administration of Justice
Dainius Pūras
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
Coleen McGleenon
Trauma Recovery Therapist and Mental Health Advocate
Coleen McGleenon
Trauma Recovery Therapist and Mental Health Advocate
Clare MacGillivray
Director of Making Rights Real (Scotland)
Chloë Trew
PPR Director
Caleb Armitage
Youth Mentor and Volunteer
Bridget Meehan
Secretary, Northern Mutual board
Azadeh Sobout
Organiser
Athi Silevu
Poet and IT professional
Aidan Lloyd
Chairperson, The Rights Platform