Sam has over 15 years’ experience working with organisations to facilitate and deliver positive change across corporate, public and third sectors. Sam has extensive planning, strategy, and programme management experience across complex initiatives. She is passionate about stakeholder engagement and uses an inclusive approach built on clear understanding, trust, strong relationships to develop positive partnerships. Sam established The Partnership Lab in early 2018, to help organisations deliver positive change and she has always had an interest in the third sector and helping to make a difference. Being a board member of SAY Women is a privilege and an opportunity for me to help use my skillset to help strengthen and grow an amazing organisation.
Pam is an Open University graduate with an MBA and has been working in the voluntary sector for the last 10 years. Her career, initially in the private sector, has moved into the areas of Learning Disability, Mental Health, Sports and Young People and Sexual Abuse. She has been living in Northern Ireland for the last 14 years and has recently seen the light and returned to her home of Scotland. She is a keen sports fan and player, including a season ticket holder for the Glasgow Warriors and has recently completed her coaching diploma.
Sandra has been in the Board since September 2017. She has a strong interest in equality, diversity and inclusion. Currently working as the Corporate Planning manager at SQA with responsibilities for a wide range of Strategic Planning and Governance aspects including, under the public sector equality duty, to positively contribute to a more equal society through advancing equality and good relations in its day-to-day business. She is the Depute Chair of SQAs Women’s network which promotes gender equality at the workplace. She is also a member of the Risk and Audit Committee, to which she contributes with her extensive experience in Risk Management and Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience.
Laura Kelly is a multimedia journalist, podcaster and award-winning columnist. She was born and brought up in Belfast and is now based in Glasgow. She has been part of the street paper movement, working to offer opportunities for the most vulnerable members of society for almost 20 years. Her passions include social justice, feminism, music and magazines. As the Culture Editor of The Big Issue she brings in leading thinkers and creatives to tell engaging and thought-provoking stories with a social conscience at their heart.
Lynne is an HR professional with over 15 years’ experience working in the social housing sector, gaining sound governance knowledge during this time. In her current role as a People and Culture manager for a local Housing Association Lynne advises on all people related matters. She is passionate about staff development, mental health and wellbeing. Lynne is honoured to support the essential work of SAY Women as a member of the Board. She strongly believes that everyone deserves a safe place to call home.
Ann is a Solicitor and Consultant with BTO Solicitors. She specialises in construction law. She formerly headed the firm’s CSR Committee. Ann has always been passionate about giving women and children a voice and providing them with the tools and skills they need to play an active part in society. She has been involved with UNICEF for many years and has represented Scotland on its UK Board.
Donna is a finance professional with over twenty years’ experience working in the charity and health sectors. As a qualified accountant she has works as part of the management team to make a difference to the organisations she has worked for by delivering a dynamic finance service. Donna passionately believes that everyone should have a safe secure environment to call a home and with that in mind she uses her drive, knowledge, skills determination to help make the aims and goals of the organisation she’s involved with a reality.
Lorna has been working in the voluntary sector for almost fifteen years and her work has focused on policy for the majority of that time. She has, in the past, worked on women's participation in decision making processes and from this has a keen commitment to the eradication of violence against women and girls, as well as interest in women in the criminal justice system, women's participation in the labour market and the recognition of unpaid work. Lorna is currently Policy Officer for Early Years Scotland, where she is privileged to lead on policy for both the sector overall and for the children and families that her organisation works with. Lorna is a mum of two, and when she's not providing her boys with a taxi service, she is a keen sports fan, loves sweeties, and will never refuse a cup of tea.
We are delighted to announce that author and public speaker, Madeline Black, has become a patron of SAY Women. A true advocate of life after abuse and rape and an inspiration to us all.
Violently gang-raped when she was thirteen years old, and raped three more times before the age of eighteen, Madeleine has experienced more trauma in her life than most ever will.
Living in a state of shock and self-loathing, it took her years of struggle to confront the buried memories of that first attack and begin to undo the damage it wrought, as men continued to take advantage of her fragility in the worst possible way.
In Unbroken, Madeleine tells her deeply moving and empowering story, as she discovers that life is about how a person chooses to recover from adversity. We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how we get back up.
Lynsey Campbell is a successful technology executive who has led many teams in some of the world’s largest organisations. Mum to twin girls, Lynsey is committed to becoming a leader who inspires others to connect to their purpose and to operate with passion and integrity. Lynsey serves as trustee and ambassador to a diverse range of charities, with the sole purpose of creating equity for women anywhere and everywhere it does not yet exist.
