Our Collective

Irene Warner-Mackintosh

Managing Director

Irene has worked across the non-profit sector for most of her professional life, with organisations focussed on a range of social justice issues. For over a decade, she has specialised in work to address digital inequality, locally, nationally and internationally. She has particular experience in developing partnership approaches with organisations supporting people experiencing homelessness; or supporting people impacted by the justice system or those organisations implementing harm reduction approaches for people currently using drugs. She is also committed to participatory action research and centres lived expertise in all her work.

Shona Munro

Managing Director

Shona has worked in digital participation for over a decade and has a particular focus on adult education and the training and support of individuals and organisations to build community capacity. Prior to this, Shona worked with local authorities in community learning and development departments, developing and delivering IT training to adults, as well as arts and cultural activities for young people.

She remains committed to developing work at scale, with an increasing focus on technology enabled care. Shona is also thrilled to be developing digital inclusion work across the globe, supporting communities of practice and delivering shared approaches.

Brigitte Vallance

Digital Inclusion Lead

Brigitte has a background in occupational psychology. She has extensive experience in adult education and has worked with local authorities and third sector organisations, delivering training workshops to students of all abilities. Most recently Brigitte has been working in community engagement, bringing together local and national partners to deliver shared outcomes.

Brigitte’s work with Mhor often focusses on older adults, ensuring that nobody feels they’re too far behind. She also leads on our 1:1 support for people accessing technology enabled care.

Jo Chenhall

Digital Inclusion Lead

Jo joined Mhor Collective with a background in qualitative and quantitative research, having worked in that area for over 25 years. She has been worked in adult education for for over a decade, successfully delivering digital inclusion training across Scotland to both individuals and organisations.

Jo often leads specifically on our work with Local Authorities, and with other public sector bodies.

Hazel Raee

Digital Inclusion Lead

Hazel is based on Skye, and has extensive experience of working in the adult learning environment, delivering digital skills classes to adult students. Working with organisations such as T.A.G. Highland, Citizens Online, High Life Highland and Mhor Collective she has assisted students who have never before used a digital device to develop their confidence and enjoy doing things online working with students in a way which keep the sessions focussed on their needs.

Hazel has worked extensively across our health and social care projects.

Skye Mackintosh

Digital Inclusion Lead

Skye is currently studying politics at Glasgow University and is particularly interested in social justice issues. She was part of the Empower Project as part of a team who developed a campaign to challenge online hate speech. She has also worked with feminist and refugee charities. Skye is leading on much of the work focussed on supporting Children and Young People in the digital space.

Lesley MacAngus

Digital Inclusion Lead

Lesley has a background in Police Training, primarily co-ordinating all police and support staff courses throughout the Highlands and Islands before specialising in ‘Distance Learning’ providing essential training to staff working in the most remote areas.

Lesley’s particular area of interest is supporting rural and remote communities online. She’s also the lynchpin of co-ordinating the work that we do.

Dave Donnelly

Digital Inclusion Lead

Dave has a background in delivering digital inclusion through a community development lens. He’s focussed on collaboratively building power from the ground up, manifesting that strength in knowledge, activism and strategy.

Prior to this, he accumulated a wealth of experience in local government, from digitising services and designing customer journeys to delivering training and managing projects.

Driven by his deep commitment to social justice and fueled by his practice as a grassroots organizer on food inequality, Dave believes deeply that the power of technology can be harnessed to effect positive change in the world.

Mhor

In Gaelic,“mhor” means “big”. We are a collective – a team – and our philosophy is that by working together with colleagues, clients and partners, our impact can be much bigger than the sum of our parts.