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Caoimhe is the Student Engagement Officer for AHEAD. Her role in AHEAD as the Student Engagement Officer is to coordinate and initiate student outreach to build a strong and thriving community of students with disabilities.

With her previous experience as Vice President and President of the NCAD Students' Union, she spearheaded the development and implementation of campaigns, policies, and initiatives to support students' welfare and engagement, including the Healthy Campus Initiative and the Period Poverty Campaign. She has also worked on nationwide student movement activities on behalf of the M.O. with over 1300 members. She has recently been diagnosed with a disability herself and is passionate about advocating and connecting with students with disabilities studying in both HEI's and FET's.

Charles joined the School of Law at the University of Galway in 2012 as a lecturer, later becoming the Head of School from 2017 to 2021. He earned a PhD from the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, University of Galway, focusing on 'Diversion: A Comparative Study of Law and Policy Relating to Defendants and Offenders with Mental Health Problems and Intellectual Disability.' During his career, Charles served as the President of the Irish Association of Law Teachers (IALT) for two terms. Prior to his academic role, he worked as Amnesty International Ireland's Legal Officer, on its mental health campaign, and as a legal researcher for the Law Reform Commission of Ireland.  His academic qualifications include an LLM from University College London, another LLM in Public Law from University of Galway, and a BA in Law and History, followed by a LLB from the University of Galway.  He is part of the Crime, Punishment and Justice Research Cluster at the School of Law.  Charles teaches modules on Health Law and Policy, Comparative Disability Law, and An Introduction to the Irish Legal System.  Current research projects explore access to justice for persons with disabilities in Ireland, and human rights and mental health law reform.

James Curry is the Vice President for Equality & Citizenship for the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). He represents over a quarter of a million students in third level education under the remit of equality and citizenship which encompasses: race, gender, sexuality, disabilities and so much more. 

Adam set up AsIAm based on his own experiences growing up as a young autistic person in Ireland. Diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome from an early age, the condition was far less understood or even known as it is today. Having spent his initial school years within the special education stream, he moved to a mainstream school in Second Class and was supported by an SNA. Adam Harris is the Founder and CEO of AsIAm, Ireland’s National Autism Charity. Adam founded the organisation based on his own experiences growing up on the autism spectrum. Today, AsIAm provides support to the autism people and their families, advocates on behalf of the community, and works to support public and private sector organisations and communities in becoming inclusive and accessible. A Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Awardee, Adam is a frequent contributor to media and conferences in Ireland and overseas. He has also sat and advised on many government consultative and policy committees on disability rights and inclusion. From Greystones in Co Wicklow, Adam was appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in July 2020.

Ken Kilbride is the CEO at ADHD Ireland. Ken has over 25 years experience in senior management positions in a wide range of both very large and very small not for profit organisations in Ireland (drinkware.ie; Consumers Association; Fianna Fail). His role with ADHD Ireland is to enact the vision and strategy of the Board, and in the words of Captain James T Kirk take this ADHD organisation to where no ADHD organisation has ever been before.

Delia Ferri is a Professor of Law at Maynooth University (MU) School of Law and Criminology, where she lectures primarily in the fields of EU law and International and European Disability Law and acts as Director of the Postgraduate Research (PhD) Programmes in Law. Since March 2020, she is the co-Director of the MU Assisting Living & Learning (ALL) Institute, an interdisciplinary research institute, which includes more than 120 researchers and academics from across several MU Departments and Schools, and promotes person-centred systems and evidence-based policies that empower people across their life course.