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  • What and Who
    • IBSR: The Work
    • The Team
  • Our programmes
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    • Cambodia
    • Curriculum
  • Resources
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    • Videos and Content
    • Blog
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Meet the Team

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NADINE FERRIS FRANCE - www.nadineferrisfrance.com
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 

​Nadine has spent 25 years working in HIV and global health within United Nations and civil society agencies, as well as in academic institutions in Asia, Africa and her home country, Ireland. Nadine was a co-founder and Executive Director of Health and Development Networks and lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand for many years. She currently works in Dublin part-time as the Executive Director for the Irish Global Health Network (IGHN) and ESTHER Ireland. She is also a Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie.
 
She is extremely passionate about self-stigma and self-worth.  Based on her own personal and professional experience, she has worked with a number of amazing people to design an innovative approach to support people living with HIV, survivors of gender-based violence, injecting drug users and other marginalized groups deal with the profound and debilitating disease of self-stigma.  She founded The Work for Change in 2016 and currently lives in Ireland with her two children. 




RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATIONS
CAMILLE RICH 

Camille is the professional intern at Beyond Stigma, working on research and communications projects. Camille became involved with Beyond Stigma for the dissertation of her masters of global health degree at Trinity College Dublin. She has had several years of experience working in the field of HIV and quickly became passionate about understanding and ending HIV-related self-stigma. After the completion of the joint research, Camille continued working with Beyond Stigma and became involved our current programmes and community outreach. Today, Camille assists in our grant applications, programme research and implementation, and social media. 
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ASSOCIATE CERTIFIED FACILITATORS 
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MARGOT DISKIN
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KAREN GIBBENS
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SUSAN VIELGUTH

CERTIFIED FACILITATOR SUPPORT TEAM
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AMELIA CHENOWETH
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URSULA CARLIN
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BRID NI CHIONAOLA
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CELESTE GABRIELE
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KATHY WHITE
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AILEEN CHEATHAM
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CINDY SMITH ROSS
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PATRIE GRACE

THE BOARD
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PROFESSOR RONAN CONROY  (Research)
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DEIRDRE NI CHEALLAIGH, TROCAIRE (Chair)
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DR. ELAINE BYRNE (Research)
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DR. STEVE MACDONALD (Research)
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URSULA CARLIN (IBSR)
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Dr. Brendan O'Shea
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Fungai Murau
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Anne Matthews 

PATRON
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EDWIN CAMERON
A retired judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa,  he is well known for his HIV/AIDS and gay-rights activism and was hailed by Nelson Mandela as "one of South Africa's new heroes. Diagnosed with HIV himself in the 1980s, Edwin often speaks about self (internal) stigma and is a passionate activist, writer and speaker on this subject. We are deeply honoured that he is the Patron for The Work for Change.
In his words…“The most inaccessible, the most intractable element of stigma is the disfiguring sense of shame that emanates from the internal world of some with HIV or AIDS. This sense colludes with external stigma, overcoming efforts to deal with the disease rationally, keeping those with AIDS or HIV in involuntary self-imposed isolation, casting a pall of contamination and silence over the disease”

BOARD MEMBERS
Ursula Carlin
Elaine Bryne
Ronan Conroy
Steve MacDonald
Deirdre Ni Cheallaigh
Nadine Ferris France
Anne Matthews
Brendan O Shea
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