Meet the Team
Co-Founder, Co-Lead
Isabelle Kirkham (She/Her)
Isabelle is on Maternity Leave from April 2024 – February 2025. Paul Nelson will be stepping into her role to provide cover during this time.
Isabelle is a 27 year old passionate Care Experienced Activist/Campaigner, Graduate of Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a First Class Honours Degree in Drama, Applied Theatre and Education, National Diversity Awards 2022 Shortlisted Nominee for the Positive Role Model Award: Age, Co-Founder of Reclaim Care Collective, LGBTQ+ and most importantly a big sister.
Co-Founder & Co-Lead
Rose Regan (They/Them)
Rose is 25 and is currently Co-CEO for The Care Experienced Movement but also runs their own small craft business following whichever hyperfocus hobby their AuDHD mind has chosen to do that month!
They finished college with a distinction in Fashion and Textiles and are currently doing little courses here and there to further their personal hobbies and career including printmaking, BSL and origami. Rose is care experienced, neurodivergent, disabled and queer and wishes to try to make the world a better place for all.
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Co-Chair and
Steering Board Member
Millicent Wenlock (She/Her)
Millicent is 21, neurodivergent, and disabled. She is passionate about advocating for and supporting care-experienced people by improving access to higher education and employment opportunities. She recently left the Unite Foundation as a community relations specialist, having passionately supported the All of Us community group of care-experienced and estranged young people, where she founded the All of Us Employment Group to help increase opportunities within the community.
Steering Board Member
Kirsty Piper (She/Her)
Krystal is a passionate advocate for children and young people who are in care experienced. This passion serves from being in foster care herself as a teenager. Krystal left school with no qualifications due to navigating the complexities of being in care. She went back to studying after the birth of her first child aged 18 and qualified as a youth and community worker and went on to gain a 1st class honours degree in social work.
Krystal is now a social worker and team manager working in a child protection team in a local Authority where she manages a team of social workers, family support worker and students. Krystal hoped that by becoming a social worker she could make small changes to the system having experienced it herself by educating social workers around the importance of the relationship with each child and the importance of the use of language when talking to and writing about children and how their actions impact children now and in the future.
Krystal has recently written a piece in the book Free Loaves on Friday in which she wrote a letter to her younger self. Most importantly Krystal’s biggest achievement is being a mummy to two children.
Steering Board Member
Hatty Nestor (She/Her)
Hatty is a writer and researcher, interested in questions of class, gender and equality. She has experience with the care system and is committed to reimagining what a more caring system might look like in society. In her book Ethical Portraits: In Search of Representational Justice (2012) she explored how portraits in the criminal justice system can teach us about ethics, care and accountability. She applies these ideas to her activist work in the care movement.