Dublin Simon Community
Michelle Connolly is an experienced professional in research and policy, currently serving as the Research and Policy Manager at Dublin Simon Community since January 2019, having previously held roles including Senior Research and Policy Officer and Research and Advocacy Officer within the same organization. Michelle has a diverse background, including a position as Social Enterprise Supervisor at Dublin Simon Community and experience as a Sales Consultant at Anthony Nicholas Group: Fields Jewellers. Other notable roles include Information Officer (Intern) at New Communities Partnership and English Language Teacher in Spain. Michelle's education includes a Master's Degree in International Relations and a Bachelor's Degree in History and Spanish, both obtained from University College Dublin. Michelle completed secondary education at Loreto College.
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Dublin Simon Community
Dublin Simon Community works to prevent and address homelessness in Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan & Louth. We provide services at all stages of homelessness and enable people to move to a place they can call home. At Simon, we listen to people who turn to us for help and do everything we can to support them to move out of homelessness into independent living. We strive to empower people to access, secure and retain a home of their own by reducing the reliance on short-term emergency accommodation and providing permanent supported housing for people to sustain a home in their local community. Moving people into supported housing produces life-enhancing and life-saving results and is more cost-effective in the long run. The organisation was founded by a group of Trinity and UCD students in 1969, who began by providing much-needed soup and sandwiches to people who were sleeping rough in Dublin city centre. In addition to the Soup Run, which still goes out 365 nights of the year, Dublin Simon provide many services which aim to help those who are sleeping rough on the streets, people who are in their own accommodation but at risk of homelessness and those who are at any of the stages in between. (Charity number CHY 5963).