Staff

Digital Projects Officer Abbie Jones-Walters joined ASN in March 2024. She works alongside the Fundraising and Communications manager on all things digital and data. Abbie is a communications and fundraising professional who has worked primarily in Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence, and Older People’s charities. Outside of ASN she is a grassroots activist, working with intersectional feminist causes, and runs Love and Rage, a mutual aid organisation offering writing workshops for survivors. She is a writer, has a puppy, and is from Yorkshire but lives in Cornwall.

Service Manager Annie Tidbury joined ASN in April 2023. She oversees and supports our frontline services including the helpline, accommodation team, translation team and hosting team. Annie’s background is in advocacy and before joining ASN she worked at a disability rights organisation and a rape crisis centre. She spends a lot of time thinking about how we can do radical, transformative work within oppressive systems. When she’s not working she can be found swimming, gaming or volunteering with a local Rainbows group. 

Managing Director Camille Kumar joined ASN in December 2024. She oversees and supports ASN, ensuring we have the resources we need to fulfil our purpose and the connections we need to build movement while also developing our strategic direction. Camille has spent over twenty years working and organising in solidarity with people living at the intersection of race, gender, violence and migration. Her diverse leadership roles have included coordinating the national network for grassroots global majority-led ending violence organisations, co-producing a service for child survivors of sexual abuse, working on national LGBT+ and race equality policy for a trade union and leading a city-wide anti-racist education strategy. The golden thread through her work and organising is deep care and transformative justice. Outside of paid work Camille can be found hanging out with her kiddo in playgrounds, beaches and the woods and finding ways to rehearse freedom.

Senior Helpline Coordinator Ciara McHugh joined ASN in March 2024. She works alongside the Service Manager to provide coordination and day to day support for the helpline team and other related services. Ciara qualified as a Midwife in 2013 and since then has worked in abortion care in both the UK and overseas. She is passionate about working in reproductive health and campaigning for health equality and human rights. She is based in Northern Ireland.

Fundraising and Communications Manager Dani Anderson joined ASN in June 2021. She looks after ASN’s fundraising activities, including working with our wonderful volunteers on individual giving, community fundraising, and trusts and foundations. She lives in Glasgow, and is currently on maternity leave.

Fundraising and Communications Manager (maternity cover) Ellie Jones is an experienced fundraiser having worked in several charities; she has strengths in Mid-value and Major Donor fundraising. Ellie has a masters degree in Social Anthropology. Outside of work Ellie represents Great Britain in Tag Rugby, and is an ultra-marathon runner.

Volunteer and Admin Assistant Julia Pata joined ASN in April 2023. She is a human rights activist who has worked on reproductive rights campaigns in Poland and the UK. Julia is currently a Youth Director on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International UK and volunteers with grassroots organisations in Poland. At ASN, she supports our volunteer teams and provides support across the organisation to help keep everything running smoothly.

Senior Helpline Coordinator Lucy Wilkinson joined ASN in July 2023. She works alongside the Service Manager to provide coordination and day to day support for the helpline team and other related services. Lucy’s background is in the charity, public and education sectors including child protection and child disability social work. Outside of ASN she enjoys practicing Iyengar yoga, hiking and volunteering in a charity shop once a week.

Board of Trustees

Alex Irving‘s background is in domestic abuse work including as a service manager and national development lead, with a particular interest in meetings the needs of marginalised communities. Alex observed the need for non-biased reproductive education whilst working with disabled mothers who were facing care proceedings. Abortion rights form a wider part of their politics, including the intersections of violence against women and girls & the need for abortions to be accessible for all.

Camille Barbagallo (co-opted) is currently the Chief of Operations and Development at European Legal Support Centre, an organisation of movement lawyers defending the Palestine Solidarity Movement in Europe. She has a PhD from the University of East London and Masters from Goldsmiths University and brings 25 years of experience running small to medium sized organisations, with the last decade spent in senior leadership roles. Expertise in GDPR regulations and British charity law and regulation. 

Catherine Kilfedder (co-opted)

Clarisa Regede (on parental leave) is a human rights policy specialist with 9 years’ experience of working on diverse humanitarian issues in multi-cultural contexts.  She is currently a policy consultant working with grassroots organisations and movements in the global south and europe building their capacity in solving sexual reproductive and health community problems through efficient grant processes, prudent evidence building, deliberate stakeholder engagement and innovation.  She focuses on global policy analysis work in innovative finance, non-profit management, philanthropy, innovation, design thinking, agile leadership, agile fundraising, and strategy development. She has served as an adviser on meaningful youth engagement initiatives for young people globally working with philanthropies and donors,  that include Investment Fund Foundation and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Clarisa’s has a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from SOAS University of London and she is an alumni of the prestigious Young African Leaders Initiative program, the Mandela Washington Fellowship 2021. 

Ella Nwaokolo (on parental leave)

Emma Campbell is a Research Associate in Social Studies at Ulster University on the cross-border HEA-funded North/South Reproductive Citizenship project (2022-Present). Her PhD was on utilising art, primarily photography and performance, as a sexy & magical tool for abortion rights along with Alliance for Choice (of which she is a co- convenor) and a member of Array Collective. 

Lesley-Ann Storey (co-opted)

Lisa Flanagan has worked in the charity sector for over 20 years since graduating from university. She is a passionate fundraiser who is keen to learn from the work of other not for profits to help improve the projects she is managing and ultimately to maximise income for the cause. Lisa has been pro-choice for as long as she can remember and started supporting ASN with a regular gift in January 2018. In her spare time, Lisa likes to explore new places, is an active member of her local book club and can often be found at a comedy club or music venue.

Ruth Fletcher (chair) is a Reader in Medical Law at Queen Mary University of London. She has over 20 years of experience in researching and teaching about law, health and society, including abortion support activities and their legal environment. Her feminist activism began with abortion support back in the 1990s as a student in Trinity College Dublin, and has since included public legal education as an individual academic and with a range of civil society organisations.