Humanism in Action 2024 | Cardiff

ANN-MICHELLE BURTON | Head of People

Ann-Michelle joined Humanists UK in 2022. Ann-Michelle’s role is to lead on all aspects related to our people’s experience of working or volunteering with us. She oversees our people strategy and associated activities, including staff and volunteer engagement, recruitment, leadership, learning and development, and our people brand. She works alongside our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Action Group to promote EDI across the workforce. As Head of People, she also oversees HR for the staff team.

ANDREW COPSON | Chief Executive

Andrew is Chief Executive of Humanists UK. He became Chief Executive in 2010 after five years coordinating Humanists UK’s education and public affairs work. Andrew is also current President of Humanists International.

He is the author of Secularism: A Very Short Introduction and, with Alice Roberts, The Little Book of Humanism, The Little Book of Humanist Weddings, and The Little Book of Humanist Funerals.

MADELEINE GOODALL | Humanist Heritage Coordinator

Madeleine is the Humanist Heritage Coordinator for Humanists UK, researching and writing about the history of humanism to celebrate the organisation’s 125th birthday. She has a background in education, museums, and community history, and is also Humanists UK’s Wikimedian in Residence. She currently leads on a two-year National Lottery Heritage Fund project – Humanist Heritage: doers, dreamers, place makers – which focuses on the remarkable freethinkers and activists who changed the world, and the communities they built around them.

GUY HIRST | Communications Manager

Guy is the Communications Manager at Humanists UK, and is responsible for the execution and management of a diverse range of public and member-facing communications to promote understanding of humanism; attract new supporters; market Humanists UK’s campaigns, products, and services; and further our overall brand and reputation.

He leads on creating and distributing digital and print content for Humanists UK, including organic social media posts, paid social, campaign graphics, print adverts, leaflets, newsletters, and a wide range of online interviews, stories, articles, and features, promoting the full gamut of Humanists UK’s campaigns, products, and services.

SNÉHA KHILAY | Managing Director, Blue Tulip Consultancy

Snéha is a specialist diversity and management/leadership consultant working in the UK and internationally. She has provided training and consultancy support to a wide range of organisations over the past 20 years. She has advised board members, CEOs, executive directors, and senior managers on how to develop a strategic and operational approach to problem solving, particularly in relation to the changing stance on leadership diversity, inclusion, and unconscious bias.

Her focus, using effective communication skills, is on supporting organisations and the leadership team on how to ‘bridge the gap’, to create a better understanding of inclusive practices especially in relation to language, behaviour and attitudes/expectations. Snéha helps identify and implement effective solutions to their organisation-related ‘diversity dilemmas’.

TERRI O’SULLIVAN | Apostate Services Development Officer

Terri is the Apostate Services Development Officer for Faith to Faithless, Humanists UK’s programme of support that raises awareness around the issues apostates face, provides socials and facilitated peer support specifically for apostates, and runs apostate awareness training for service providers and other third parties who in turn support apostates. 

Terri delivers and develop social groups and peer support groups for apostates, and delivers and grows our training programme for professionals. 

JEREMY RODELL | Dialogue Officer

Jeremy is a volunteer who leads Humanists UK’s dialogue network, which brings people from different humanist and religious communities together in search of common ground. This work builds bridges, develops mutual understanding, and promotes tolerance and good relationships in our communities.

ANDREW WEST | Director of IT

Andrew joined in May 2011, after two years volunteering as Humanists UK’s Photographer-in-Residence. He ran his own IT company for nine years before joining Humanists UK, and is now responsible for managing and coding the Humanists UK website, its many spin-off websites, the office computers, and the contact database. Outside of the office he is a private pilot and ballroom dancer. He also represented Humanists UK on the Fourth Plinth.