About Me

Writer: my plays have been performed at the Southwark Playhouse, Arcola and King’s Head. I’ve published two novels. I have written articles for The Guardian, Our World 2.0, Resurgence & Ecologist and Open Democracy.

Identity: I 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. My chapter, The Common Language of Story, appears in Thinking About Behaviour Change, 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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