Joint coordinator of Basic Income Ireland, Irish affiliate of Basic Income Earth Network

www.basicincome.org

Basic Income Ireland seeks an Ireland where every child, woman and man has an unconditional guaranteed basic income sufficient to live life with dignity.

Moderator of Equal-L

listserv.heanet.ie/equal-l

Equal-L is an information-exchange network for equality issues in Ireland (listserv.heanet.ie/equal-l). Equal-L has over 600 subscribers and is used by civil society activists to post information on events, campaigns and opportunities in Ireland.

Ursula Barry is a member of a range of policy development, advisory committees and organisations in the public, community and voluntary sectors. Political and community analyst and activist on issues of equality and social justice, women's rights, human rights, lesbian and gay issues and rights of people with disabilities.

Member Research and Policy Advisory Group Immigrant Council of Ireland

www.immigrantcouncil.ie

The ICI is an independent immigrant human rights organisation, which works with and for immigrants. It advocates for the rights of immigrants and their families, and acts as a catalyst for public debate and policy change. The ICI is also an Independent Law Centre

Advisor Anti-trafficking Research Partnership

www.immigrantcouncil.ie

Member, Gender, Disability and Equality

Member of IFN Working Group on Gender Budgeting

www.irishfeministnetwork.org

Advisor to National Women's Council of Ireland

www.nwci.ie

The National Women's Council of Ireland is the representative organisation for women and women's groups in Ireland. Its mission is to achieve women's equality and empower women to work together to remove inequalities

Former chairperson, Sonas

www.sonashousing.ie

Sonas offers support, refuge and housing to women and children made homeless because of domestic and gender-based violence. The Sonas mission statement is:….is to provide high quality housing support and refuge services to women and children affected by domestic violence, empowering them to regain control over all aspects of their lives.

Former Board Member of Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN)

www.glen.ie

GLEN is a Policy and Strategy focused NGO which aims to deliver ambitious and positive change for lesbian, gay and bisexual people (LGB) in Ireland, ensuring full equality, inclusion and protection from all forms of discrimination

Kathleen has worked with many educational and community organisations over the years to promote equality and justice, by assisting in research, giving lectures or acting in an advisory capacity. In 2011-12 she gave invited lectures and prepared papers for many community organisations including the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT). Kathleen has also served on a number of statutory and international bodies in recent years including the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Network of Experts on Social Sciences and Education (NESSE) appointed by the European Commission

Board Member, AHEAD

www.ahead.ie

AHEAD - the Association for Higher Education Access and Disability. AHEAD is an independent non-profit organisation working to promote full access to and participation in further and higher education for students with disabilities and to enhance their employment prospects on graduation.

Founder and Council Member, TASC

www.tascnet.ie

TASC which is an independent think-tank dedicated to addressing Ireland’s high level of economic inequality and ensuring that public policy has equality at its core.

Founder and active member, Praxis

www.praxiseducation.weebly.com

PRAXIS is a community education group. This group involves a wide range of local organisations involved in developing Freirean education programmes and actions for egalitarian change.

Adviser, Migrant Rights Centre

www.mrci.ie

The Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland (MCRI) is a voluntary organisation working for justice, empowerment and equality for migrant workers

Facilitator / Organiser, Worker Owners' Cooperative

www.workerscooperativenetwork.org

A worker co-operative is a business owned and democratically controlled by the people who work in it in which the importance of capital should be subordinate to labour. PRAXIS/UCD Equality Studies organised on a conference on worker ownership in April 2012 in collaboration with MeithealMidWest from Limerick, Trademark Belfast and Kilbarrack Community Development Programme. The event was a follow-up to a two-day study visit to the Mondragon worker-owner cooperative in Spain organised by Bill Kelly of MeithealMidWest. Since then we have been working with the support of Bruno Roelants, General Secretary of the International Organisation of Industrial, Artisanal and Service Producers' Co-operatives (CICOPA) and a variety of international and UK organisations to promote the infrastructure for worker ownership legally and organisationally in Ireland.

President, Women’s History Association of Ireland

www.whai.ie

Founded in 1989, the aim of the WHAI is to promote research into the history of women in Ireland. The WHAI sponsors an annual conference and circulates regular news bulletins to members about upcoming publications, conferences, seminars and other events related to the field of women’s history. It offers the MacCurtain/Cullen Prize in Irishwomen’s History and the Anna Parnell Travel grant for research in gender history each year.

Board Member, Irish Feminist Network

www.irishfeministnetwork.org

The IFN is a network of women and men promoting gender equality across all aspects of Irish society. IFN organises regular meetings throughout the year to share ideas and take action against injustices faced by women in Ireland. We also aim to hold discussion groups and workshops to further education about feminism and its practical application. The IFN is an organisation committed to actively protesting against gender inequalities across Ireland.

Council Member, National Archives Advisory Council

www.nationalarchives.ie

The National Archives Advisory Council was established in January 1987 under Section 20 of the National Archives Act, 1986, to advise the Minister with responsibility for the National Archives – the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht - in the exercise of his powers under the Act and on all matters affecting archives and their use by the public. Members of the National Archives Advisory Council are appointed for a period of five years.

Board Member, Irish Queer Archive (IQA)

http://irishqueerarchive.com

The Irish Queer Archive contains the most comprehensive collection of material in Ireland relating to homosexuality and general queer studies. The IQA a vast collection of material which provides fascinating and valuable insights into the social, cultural and political history of the LGBT communities in an Irish and international context during the latter half of the 20th century – was presented in 2008 to the National Library of Ireland following a decision to donate it by the National Lesbian and Gay Federation.

Member Advisory Board, Justice for Magdalens

www.magdalenelaundries.com

Justice for Magdalenes seeks to promote and represent the interests of the Magdalene women, to respectfully promote equality and seek justice for the women formerly incarcerated in Magdalene Laundries and to seek the establishment and improvements of support as well as advisory and re-integration services provided for survivors

Debt Justice Action

www.notourdebt.ie

Debt Justice Action is a broad based coalition of non-party political organizations and individuals campaigning for debt justice, both in Ireland and in the Global South. We seek to build alliances with networks and organizations in Europe and the Global South on the issue of debt justice, and act in solidarity with peoples worldwide affected by the imposition and payment of illegitimate debts. Since 2011 we have run a campaign called 'Anglo: Not Our Debt', which calls upon the government to refuse to pay the debts of Anglo Irish Bank (now the IBRC) on the grounds that the debts of these now state-owned institutions are not the responsibility of people in Ireland, and that the payment of this illegitimate debt has had and will continue to have devastating consequences for Irish society.

Judy Walsh has collaborated with numerous NGOs working on social justice issues on the island of Ireland. She was co-chairperson of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties from 2003 to 2008: http://www.iccl.ie/ The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is Ireland’s leading independent human rights watchdog, which monitors, educates and campaigns in order to secure full enjoyment of human rights for everyone. In that capacity she co-authored policy publications as well as submissions to international human rights bodies and appeared before Oireachtas committees.

Board Member, Participation and Practice of Rights Project:

www.pprproject.org

Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) support disadvantaged groups to assert their right to participate in social and economic decisions which affect their lives. PPR currently works on issues including mental health, adequate housing, regeneration and youth participation with groups across the island of Ireland.

Board Member, Healthy Food for All

www.healthyfoodforall.com

Healthy Food for All is an all-island initiative seeking to combat food poverty by promoting access, availability and affordability of healthy food for low-income groups.

Board Member, Marriage Equality

www.marriagequality.ie

Marriage Equality is a not for profit, single issue, national grassroots advocacy organisation whose goal is to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Ireland through the extension of civil marriage rights to same-sex couples.

Judy Walsh has engaged in training and research activities with several other human rights organisations including:

The Immigrant Council of Ireland

www.immigrantcouncil.ie

The ICI is an independent immigrant human rights organisation, which works with and for immigrants. It advocates for the rights of immigrants and their families, and acts as a catalyst for public debate and policy change. The ICI is also an Independent Law Centre

National Women's Council of Ireland

www.nwci.ie

The National Women's Council of Ireland is the representative organisation for women and women's groups in Ireland. Its mission is to achieve women's equality and empower women to work together to remove inequalities.

The Children's Rights Alliance

www.childrensrights.ie

The Children’s Rights Alliance is a coalition of over 100 organisations working to secure the rights of children in Ireland, by campaigning for the full implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. We aim to improve the lives of all children under 18 years, through securing the necessary changes in Ireland’s laws, policies and services.