The Teen-Turn team is comprised of representatives whose backgrounds include industry, education, social enterprise, and outreach experience.
Our founders envisioned and designed the Teen-Turn program, continuing to this day to be responsible for its leadership, operations and executive decisions.
Joanne Dolan, Co-Founder & Managing Director
Consultant and Project Manager, including Dublin City Public Libraries The Digital Skills Project, former General Manager of a large Research Centre
Niambh Scullion, Co-Founder
Product Owner, Watson Health IBM, Coolest Projects Implementation Team, Co-Founder CoderDojo Girls, Coder Girl Hack Day Organizer
Our advisors and directors are committed to furthering strategies that promote inclusion and opportunities for those marginalized by gender or social disadvantage.
Catrina Carrigan, Non-Executive Director
Student, Enterprise Computing DCU, Intel & e-fellows.net Scholar, CoderDojo Mentor
Sinéad Doherty, Advisor
CEO, Fenero, FCCA, QFA
James Milligan, Non-Executive Director
Director, UK & Ireland, EMEA – Technology & Project Solutions, Hays
Susie O’Connor, Advisor
Management Consultant, Genesis Ireland, former Senior Government Advisor and CEO of a National Youth Organisation
Ann O’Dea, Advisor
CEO, Silicon Republic, Founder InspireFest
Our operations team bring to their roles valuable experience in business practices and community-based solutions, without whose expertise we could not be an efficient and effective organization.
Margaret Malone, Program Coordinator
reachable by email programme@teen-turn.com
Nicole Ryan, Munster Projects Coordinator
reachable by email coordinator@teen-turn.com
Teen-Turn Leads are also integral to our organization, presenting our programming at events, conferences and to company representatives as well as supervising mentoring activities throughout Ireland.
Our Lead Ambassadors are Ciara Tunstead, Amanda Cullen & Rachel Ashe.
Our Lead Mentors and Facilitators are Iseult Mangan (Galway), Linda Duignan (Longford), Shane Hennessy, Fiona Gilchrist & Connie Murphy (Limerick) and Harry McCann & Triona O’Donnell (Cork).
