Penny Bennett
Community Link Manager
Penny has experience working in psychiatric units, prisons and supporting women in the community. Her mission is to increase women’s rights.
Rachel Evans
Independent Mental Health Advocate
Rachel provides advocacy for adult service users and young people at Cygnet Hospital in Sheffield. She builds positive working relationships, raises concerns service users have, supports them to attend meetings, informs them of their rights, and ensures their voices are heard. She is passionate about recognising the inequalities people in hospital experience and doing everything we can to challenge this.
Justine Howard
Advocacy Manager
Justine is passionate about moving away from diet culture. Before working for Wish she worked as a specialist counselor at Liverpool University and Merseyside eating disorder service.
Joyce Kallavik
Director
Joyce has been the Director of Wish since 2004.
A very important aspect of Joyce’s work has been to develop the organisation to become user-led, ensuring that the services. Wish delivers are trauma-informed. Joyce is passionate about justice and feels it is a privilege to work in the women’s and disability sectors. Her own personal experience of mental illness informs her perspective on power imbalances in the system and the need for change.
Emily Reynolds
Campaign and Communication Manager
Emily is passionate about user-led work and is a trustee at NSUN and Disability Action Haringey.
Maria Ryans
Operations Director
Maria is passionate about the inspirational and groundbreaking work we do as an organisation and keeps the wheels turning operationally to ensure that continues! Also qualified in Psychodynamic coaching, a member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council, and a very proud dog mum.
Kelly Royer
Counselling co-ordinator and Community Link worker
Kelly is passionate about justice for all and women’s empowerment.