We are happy to announce the appointment of four new trustees to NSUN’s Board: Aiyana Goodfellow, Hazel McMichael, Julia Tinsley-Kent and Leila Correa. Along with Alisdair Cameron and Micha Frazer-Carroll, the NSUN board now totals six Trustees.
Meet the new trustees
Aiyana Goodfellow (they/any)
Aiyana is a community organiser and multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans writing, music, theatre, and filmmaking.
They are the author of Radical Companionship: Rejecting Pethood & Embracing Our Multispecies World and INNOCENCE & CORRUPTION: An abolitionist understanding of youth oppression (both published before their 18th birthday!).
Aiyana has founded many social justice projects, particularly those that focus on the liberation of nonhuman animals, children and young people, and neurodivergent people. Aiyana is Co-founder and Co-publisher at The Anima Print and Founder + Executive Director of NEUROMANCERS, a peer-led organisation providing autonomous, abolitionist, and accessible mental health care for and by the neurodivergent+ community.
Hazel McMichael (any pronouns)
Hazel is a socially-engaged curator, researcher, and writer with a teaching background and a PhD in interdisciplinary arts and intersectional politics. They have researched and written about various aspects of trauma, madness, the “psych” system, and state violence, including recent essays on the pathologisation of abuse survivors and interactions between sexual trauma and queer desire. Hazel has worked on long-term community-led projects with fellow mad, disabled, queer, and care experienced people in grass roots and institutional settings, and is especially interested in how arts and archives can connect and empower marginalised communities. They are currently employed at Charleston to research, curate, and co-produce projects on madness in the art and lives of the Bloomsbury group.
Blog by Hazel: The Dynamics of Confession from Psychiatric Services to Digital Activism
Julia Tinsley-Kent (she/her)
Julia Tinsley-Kent (she/her) is Campaigns and Communications Advisor at Kalayaan and is currently working to co-found Parallax, a research non-profit that investigates international crimes. Prior to this she has over seven years of experience in non-profit campaigning, policy and communications at the Migrants’ Rights Network, the National Lottery Community Fund and Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust. Throughout her career she has worked to explore the intersection of mental ill health with identity and systemic oppression with a particular interest in highlighting discrimination in Western psychiatric practices and its impact on marginalised communities including queer and disabled people.
Julia also works as an artist using her creative practice to explore themes of mental health and emotion through a combination of abstract and traditional mediums.
Leila Correa (any pronouns)
Leila is a doctoral researcher working across narrative psychology and medical anthropology.
Her politics are shaped by lived experience of immigration, care experience, racialisation and psychiatric systems, alongside frontline work in forensic settings.
Across her work, she is concerned with power and material change: who is believed, who is pathologised, who is made disposable, and how communities build care and accountability beyond oppressive institutions.