The People
behind AccessAva
AccessAva is powered by a dedicated team of legal and technology experts who develop and maintain the service, ensure its legal accuracy, and continually improve the platform to support people navigating health and social care rights.
Our Legal Team
Danny Dooney
Danny is a Senior Legal Caseworker. After completing an LLM Law conversion, he has worked in in a number of organisations in the charitable sector including Rethink, Carers UK and RNIB, specialising in community care.
Senior CaseworkerKerrie Taylor
Kerrie is a Senior Legal Caseworker. After completing her legal studies in 2016, Kerrie went on to gain experience in community care and public law matters and assisted clients who were experiencing difficulties in obtaining appropriate care and support from local authorities and the NHS.
Senior Caseworker
Lucy Gripper
Lucy is a solicitor and Senior Legal Caseworker. She is committed to work that centres the voice of those with lived experience, and harnesses the power of local communities to prefigure wider system change.
Senior Caseworker
Joanna Owen
Joanna is a part-time consultant who supports the legal services team.
Consultant 
Senior Solicitor Sarah Clarke
Sarah is a Senior Solicitor. Sarah has experience representing both individuals and health and care organisations in community care and health and welfare cases. Her particular interest lies in the interface between health and social care law and how to improve joint working and seamless provision of care.
Our Team
Miriam Valencia
Miriam is Head of Digital Content. In this role, she works with people with lived experience of social care to understand what they need from the organisation’s digital products, and with the legal team to develop content that meets users’ needs.
Head of Digital ContentTom Bourne
Tom is an experienced software engineer and has spent time in a range of industries (including healthcare, finance and public transport) since 2016. He is responsible for the technical development of AccessAva, supporting the data team and data security.
Senior Developer 
Finbar Mulholland
Finbar is Head of Product. Finbar has been managing digital products for over 20 years, with significant experience within the third sector. Finbar is responsible for ensuring all our digital products are fit for purpose, provide best-in-class user experience and ultimately ensure they meet the needs of our community.
Head of Product
Alex Gale
Alex is an Legal and Administrative Support Officer. Alex helps with an administrative and co-ordination capacity as well as providing admin support to the legal and chatbot teams.
Legal and Administrative Support Officer
Head of Data InsightAmit Kohli
Amit is Head of Data Insight. His work supports both system change and core activities. He has spent over 20 years working across UN agencies, government, and NGOs, building databases, data warehouses, strategies, and AI/ML pipelines that turn messy data into meaningful results.
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