Bios

ACRE Project (Active Communities Restoring The Earth)

• Tom Layden is a Jesuit Priest living in Belfast. He is chair of the Loyola Institute Trust, Trinity College Dublin, and attends St George’s Parish Church (Church  of Ireland), Belfast, and is a Trustee of Dialogue For Diversity.
• Yvonne Jennings is a Presentation sister and a community activist in Portadown, and is a Trustee of Dialogue For Diversity.
• Gerry Clarke is director of the Belfast Jesuit Centre and a chaplain at Ulster University Belfast, and is a Trustee of Dialogue For Diversity.
• Terry Howard works as assistant to the Irish Jesuit Provincial, and is a Trustee of Dialogue For Diversity.
• Rosemary Murray is Director of Don’t Box Me In Ltd which creates opportunities for the inclusion of young people with additional needs in social activities. She is on the Management Committee of Dialogue For Diversity, and the Committee of the ACRE project.
• Jarlath Fields is a solicitor in Armagh, and a member of the Management Committee of Dialogue For Diversity.
• Kathy Wolff is project manager of The Community Relations Forum in Antrim and Newtownabbey. and a member of the Management Committee of Dialogue For Diversity, and of the Dialogue Project..
• Martina Killeavy is a counselling psychologist and a spiritual director in Ignatian spirituality. She is a member of the Management Committee of Dialogue for Diversity, and volunteers with Community Support.
• Brian Lennon is a Jesuit priest living in Armagh. He is a chaplain in Maghaberry prison. He coordinates Community Support, is Chair of the ACRE Project, and is on the Dialogue Project Committee.
• Brendan Keane is a Redemptorist priest in Clonard monastery in Belfast, a chaplain in Maghaberry Prison, and volunteers with Community Support.
• Kieran Murphy is a retired primary and secondary school teacher. He volunteers with Community Support.
• Mary McGinn is a volunteer with Citizens Advice and on the Committee of Community Support
• Mary Vallely is a former teacher, lifelong volunteer, struggling to make sense of the world but consoled by the aspiration, `Spirit of love in me, love through me.’ She is a member of the Committee of Community Support.
• Osmond Mulligan is a retired surgeon, a layman in the Irish Methodist Church. a volunteer in Community Support and a member of its Committee..
• Bernadette McArdle is a Sacred Heart sister doing community work in Armagh, and a member of the Committee of Community Support.
• Elly Omondi Odhiambo works with newly arrived people in Belfast, and is on the Committee of the Dialogue Project.
• Khanisela Moyo lectures in the Transitional Justice Institute / School of Law in Ulster University, and is on the Committee of the Dialogue Project