We have a growing team of experienced staff who are passionate about bringing freedom to victims of trafficking.
Joy Gillespie, CEO
Joy has over 20 years third sector strategic development experience across a wide range of vulnerable people groups. She has delivered large scale ESCR projects and worked in collaboration with Governments in the UK, Africa and Asia, academics and global and local NGO’s. She has been a board member of Voluntary Health Scotland, the third sector’s health facing interface with the Scottish Government and instrumental in the establishment and growth of a variety of third sector organisations and
social enterprises. She sits on the Action Areas 1 & 2 Implementation Groups of the Scottish Government’s Human Trafficking & Exploitation Strategy, the Cross Party Group for Human Trafficking, strategic and operational groups for the Ukraine response in Scotland and other national anti-trafficking bodies.
Daniel Tornes, Project Manager
Daniel joined SOHTIS as Project Manager in the summer of 2022. Before this, he was practicing as a human rights solicitor in a law centre dedicated to promoting and protecting children’s rights, where he worked on child trafficking cases, as well as other matters. He holds a Masters with Distinction in International Law and Security. He currently manages SOHTIS’ Project Light and Project Integrate.
Aileen Fleming, Project Lead
Aileen has over 30-years of project development, management and pastoral care experience in the third sector. In recent years, she was involved in setting up support services for women exiting sexual exploitation and trafficking and also delivering the Freedom Programme for women who had experienced domestic, sexual and childhood abuse. She now combines delivering coaching and training for Positive Mental Health Scotland with leading SOHTIS’ Project Integrate, long-term support for survivors of trafficking across Scotland. She also sits on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation Cross Party Group on behalf of SOHTIS.
Kirsty Allan, Partnership Lead
Kirsty began her career in Aberdeen graduating from Robert Gordons University with an honours degree in Social Work. Following time spent in the Philippines and seeing the reality of human trafficking she relocated to South Yorkshire working for City Hearts, where she managed government funded safe houses, aftercare, outreach, rehabilitation and family support programmes. She is now developing anti-trafficking partnerships on behalf of SOHTIS.
Elyse Kirkham, Senior Philanthropy Officer
Elyse, began her career in the third sector in 2002. She is an experienced fundraiser, educated to post-graduate level, with a proven track record of successful fundraising for a number of local, national and international charities.