Our Team

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. 

Margaret Malone, Program & Communications Manager

reachable by email programme (at) teen-turn.com

Iseult Mangan, Regional Manager

reachable by email regional (at) teen-turn.com

Jacquie Murphy, Projects Coordinator, Munster

reachable by email munster (at) teen-turn.com

TBA, Projects Coordinator, Leinster

reachable by email coordinator (at) teen-turn.com

Kaye Marie Rabadon, Research & Online Activities Assistant

reachable by email design (at) teen-turn.com

Oisín Redmond, Research & Technology Activities Assistant

reachable by email tech (at) teen-turn.com

Sarah Stefan, Research & Digital Citizen Activities Assistant

reachable by email research (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
Performance Marketing Manager, National Broadband Ireland

Mark Canavan, Board of Directors
Government Affairs Manager, Johnson & Johnson

Aoife Carragher, Board of Directors
Head of Communications, Ombudsman for Children

Catrina Carrigan, Board of Directors
Information Risk Management, KPMG

James Milligan, Chair, Board of Directors
Global Head of Technology, Hays

Nichola Mullen, Board of Directors
Fundraising Director, Society of St Vincent de Paul

Alan Tyrrell, Board of Directors
Managing Director, Teneo


Board Member Mark Canavan currently serves as interim Secretary


Our founders envisioned and designed the Teen-Turn program, determining its leadership, operations and execution. 

Joanne Dolan, Co-Founder 
Consultant, including Dublin City Public Libraries The Digital Skills Project, former Site General Manager, Insight Centre for Data Analytics.

Niambh Scullion, Co-Founder
Product Owner, Watson Health IBM, 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.

Sinéad Doherty, Advisor
CEO, Fenero, FCCA, QFA

Susie O’Connor, Advisor
Management Consultant, Genesis Ireland, 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: Stephen Hammel

Clare: Jacquie Murphy

Dublin & Online: Amy Coleman, Athaliah Fubara, Dahab Sharaby, Diana Hrisovescu, Grainne Tummon, Harry McCann, Megan Canavan, Naomi Adeniji

Galway & Mayo: Iseult Mangan, Stephanie Hogan 

Longford: Cora McCauley, Linda Duignan

Limerick: Eibhlin Walsh 

Tipperary: Miriam Bergin