Team ASN

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, Human Rights campaigns and LGBTQIA+ Rights groups. She runs writing workshops for survivors, has a puppy, and plays in a band. She 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. 

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.

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

Emma Campbell 
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. 
  

Ruth Fletcher (chair)
Ruth Fletcher 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.  

Janet O’Sullivan 
Janet has been a pro-choice activist from 1992 when the story of the X case broke in Ireland. Her activism led to her to be involved in the Union of Students in Ireland’s (now defunct) Women’s Rights Action Committee. She kept up her online activism while starting a family and then went on to be a founding member of The Irish Choice Network and then the Abortion Rights Campaign. Her work on breaking abortion stigma had the BBC included her in the list of 100 Women for “inspirational and influential women for 2016”. She is a communications expert, specialised in change management, enjoys lending her expertise to the communities she is a part of. She likes puns, comics, video games and annoying people who tell her how she should behave and what to do with her body. 
 
Katie Przybyl 
Katie has been pro-abortion her entire life, and has started actively volunteering for the ASN helpline team in September 2021. She is from Poland and has lived in the UK for the past 20 years, and has over 15 years of experience in operations and project management, both in business and not-for-profit environments.  In her spare time Katie enjoys reading books, traveling and offering her feminist takes on all matter of subjects (sometime, but not always, to the annoyance of her friends and family). 

Hannah Tipple 
Hannah has been an abortion activist for nearly 13 years. From 2010 to 2023 she had a number of roles at ASN, including over a decade on the helpline. She’s recently joined Abortion Network Amsterdam’s helpline. In the odd moments when she’s not abortioneering, she’s gained expertise in finance, project management, and process design.