Rory comes to their work with Health Justice from a background in peer support, peer research, and peer organizing. They first became involved in the peer support world through the Hearing Voices Movement, where they came to understand the importance of community in healing from and making sense of difficult experiences. They went on to facilitate peer support groups by and for people who hear voices or have other unique sensory experiences, and eventually to coordinate the BC Hearing Voices Network between 2021 and 2024. Their interest in how these experiences are embedded in social context and the deep history of communities and movements surrounding them has also led them to peer and participatory research, particularly with the Early Psychosis Peer Recovery Network. Rory is also a painter and mixed media artist with a passion for the ways storytelling both shapes and reflects the world around us, and tries to incorporate this practice into their work.

Rory lives and grew up on the unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where they are a white settler in the city called Vancouver.