Michelle was a special advisor to the deputy First Minister, Michelle O’Neill. She is a former Head of Corporate Communications with a large public sector body and spent over twenty years as a journalist/news editor working in the print and broadcast media. A CIPR Global Fellow, she co-founded the local not-for-profit ‘Women in PR’ and is a founding member of the NI Public Sector Communications Forum, where she chaired its leadership work. Michelle’s interests lie in social justice, law, gender equality in decision-making and the participation of women in public and political life.