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