About Me

Writer: my plays have been performed at the Southwark Playhouse, Arcola and King’s Head. My debut novel will be released in June 2025. I have written articles for The Guardian, Our World 2.0, Resurgence & Ecologist and Open Democracy.

Identity: I am non-binary and use they/them pronouns. Queer, intersectional feminism informs all my work.

Public Speaker: highlights include sharing a panel with actress Vanessa Redgrave at her inaugural Humanitas lecture and speaking at Kneehigh Theatre’s Asylum in Cornwall. For more info on booking me as a speaker click here.

Leader: I was Director of the Eradicating Ecocide Initiative, now Stop Ecocide, founded by the late Polly Higgins. For this work I was shortlisted for the Sheila McKechnie Foundation Environmental Campaigner Award, 2011.

Academic: I have a BA with Exhibition in Psychology and Philosophy and an MSc with Distinction in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy, both from the University of Oxford. I was shortlisted for the Busuttil Domus Prize for Government and Politics for my MSc dissertation – The Happiness Agenda: Opening the black box of national well-being in the UK.

Publications include:

  • The Common Language of Story, a chapter in the book Thinking About Behaviour Change: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue printed by the Centre for Behaviour Change at UCL.

Image by Peter Morey, drawn at the IFF Seminar: A Matter of Facts, 11/5/17
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