Our Team

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.

Mariam Idris

Digital Inclusion Lead

Mariam is a project manager and community development professional with experience across the UK, MENA region, and Syria. She is the Founder and Director of Harmony Global for Humanitarian Action and Harmony Global for Education, and currently works as Digital Inclusion Lead (Mental Health Support) at Mhor Collective. With a background in international business management and stakeholder engagement, she has led humanitarian and educational initiatives, built cross-sector partnerships, and supported inclusive community projects.

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.

Peter McKenna

Digital Inclusion Lead

Peter comes from a background spanning digital inclusion, LGBTQ+ community organising, social care and the arts. Based in Glasgow, his work at Mhor Collective is focused on developing media literacy across the city as part of Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media programme - working in collaboration with Glasgow Life and in partnership with grass-roots community initiatives. The project seeks to support people experiencing wide-ranging societal exclusions to participate with safety and confidence in empowering and fulfilling digital lives. Central to this work is an understanding of ‘media literacy’ as encompassing an understanding of both the risks and the transformative real-life benefits afforded by one’s ability to access digital media.
Shaped by his experience of working alongside and in support of disabled and LGBTQ+ community members across Glasgow, Peter seeks to prioritise a person-centred and intersectional approach to facilitating participation in all of his work. In addition to his role at Mhor Collective he is a practising artist and arts educator, with an interest in creative approaches to learning.

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.

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.

Alannah Graham

Digital Inclusion Lead

Alannah is based in Glasgow and has a background in academia and research focused work, being involved in the publication of two academic papers. She is currently undertaking PhD study with her research centering around gendered hate and extremism online. Alannah’s role at Mhor specialises in addressing digital inequality, working with organisations serving and supporting women and girls who are experiencing or at risk of commercial sexual exploitation.

Sarah Shemery

Digital Inclusion Lead

Sarah Shemery is based in Glasgow and has extensive experience researching perinatal loneliness and the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers giving birth in Scotland. As a Digital Inclusion Lead at Mhor, she focuses on improving digital access and equity among racialised communities and addressing digital barriers faced by women and girls affected by violence. Her work bridges digital inclusion, anti-racism, and gender justice, centring the lived experiences of those who are most impacted by systemic inequalities. Sarah is also a PhD candidate in Social Work at the University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral research explores how the UK asylum system shapes loneliness, liminality, and structural violence among single refugee and asylum-seeking mothers who have given birth in Scotland. She has collaborated extensively with community organisations across Glasgow to co-produce research grounded in lived experience and anti-racist practice. Beyond her doctoral research, Sarah researches community-led volunteer doula support and third sector approaches to birthing advocacy for racialised women and birthing people. She has also worked on projects addressing public health data ethics, health inequalities, the experiences of asylum seekers caring for infants in asylum accommodation, suicide prevention among Roma communities, and digital inclusion with vulnerable populations.

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.