The Teen-Turn team is comprised of individuals whose backgrounds include industry, education, social enterprise, and outreach experience.
Our operations team bring to their roles valuable experience in business practices and community-based solutions without whose expertise we could not be effective.
NATIONWIDE
Sarah Stefan, Program Coordinator
reachable by email research (at) teen-turn.com
REGIONS
CONNACHT & MUNSTER
Iseult Mangan, Regional Manager, West
reachable by email regional (at) teen-turn.com
TBA, Projects Coordinator, Munster
reachable
LEINSTER
TBA, Regional Manager, East
reachable by email
Osas Samuel, Projects Coordinator, Leinster
reachable by email leinster_afterschool (at) teen-turn.com
RESEARCH
Meha James, Research & Activities Assistant
reachable by email munster_afterschool (at) teen-turn.com
Jack Saad, Content & Activities Assistant
reachable by email plus_galway (at) teen-turn.com
COMMUNICATIONS
Margaret Malone, Communications Manager
reachable by email programme (at) teen-turn.com
Alena Penkova, Communications Officer
reachable by email intern (at) teen-turn.com
Our board of directors collectively contributes to Teen-Turn’s success by ensuring compliance with legislation and charity governance requirements, maintaining high standards of transparency and accountability, and communicating with stakeholders and the public to deliver the organization’s strategy.
Grace Boland, Board of Directors
Principal Solicitor, Boland Law
Philip Bourke, Board of Directors
Senior Growth Marketing Manager, Scorebuddy
Mark Canavan, Board of Directors
Corporate Public Affairs Lead for Europe, Sanofi
Aoife Carragher, Board of Directors
Head of Communications, Ombudsman for Children
Catrina Carrigan, Board of Directors
Postgraduate Student, University of Münster
James Milligan, Chair, Board of Directors
Global Head of Technology, Engineering and Contracting, Recruitment
Mauricio Odovaine, Board of Directors
Head of Strategic Sourcing, Meta
Alan Tyrrell, Board of Directors
Senior Managing Director, Teneo
Board Member Mark Canavan currently serves as interim Secretary
Board Chair James Milligan is on Ireland’s National Skills Council
Our founders envisioned and designed the Teen-Turn program, determining its leadership, operations and execution.
Joanne Dolan, Co-Founder
Consultant, former Site General Manager, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, STEM community work includes Dublin City Public Libraries The Digital Skills Project with Coder Dojo
Niambh Scullion, Co-Founder
Senior Product Owner, Workday, former IBM Watson, STEM community work includes Coolest Projects Implementation Team, Co-Founder CoderDojo Girls, Coder Girl Hack Day Organizer
Our advisors are committed to furthering strategies that promote inclusion and opportunities for those marginalized by gender or social disadvantage.
Susie O’Connor, Advisor
Civil Servant, former Senior Government Advisor and CEO of a National Youth Organization
Ann O’Dea, Advisor
CEO, Silicon Republic, Founder InspireFest
Ruth Pe Palileo, Advisor
Registered USPTO Patent Agent & Analyst, Mechanical and Life Sciences
Teen-Turn Leads are also integral to our mission, presenting our programming at events, conferences and to company representatives as well as supervising mentoring activities throughout Ireland.
Our Lead Ambassadors are volunteers from Hays’ Technology Team
Our Lead Mentors and Facilitators
Cork: Andrea Marshall, Oliver Linger
Clare: Donna O’Sullivan & Jacquie Murphy
Dublin & Online: Amy Carruth, Amy Coleman, Athaliah Fubara, Dahab Sharaby, Diana Hrisovescu, Harry McCann, Haseeb Younis, Laura Pietrzak, Naomi Adeniji, Sophie MacGuire
Galway & Mayo: Stephanie Hogan
Longford: Cora McCauley, Linda Duignan
Limerick: Eibhlin Walsh
Tipperary: Miriam Bergin