climate changer
Who is in your family?
There’s me, my husband Tim, and our two daughters: Ramona, eight, and Juno, six.
Tell us about your life in London before children.
With my master’s degree finished, I began working as a campaigner for Oxfam. One of my biggest campaigns focused on climate change. This was twelve years ago, when discussions were about what climate change would look like in developing countries, and how we could mitigate the effects already being experienced.
Tim also worked for a charity, and while we both enjoyed our jobs, they were quite intense roles with long hours. We were part of the 9-to-5 commute, paying the mortgage on our traditional Victorian terrace in South London.
When did you first realise you were an activist?
I think I was born an activist, and my parents did a great job of letting me know I had some agency. I became a vegetarian when I was ten because I believed an individual choice mattered, and I wrote my first letter to the prime minister when I was thirteen.
How did life change when you had children?
When our first daughter was born, Tim and I worked hard to split our week and ensure we both took an equal share in parenting. On our days off, we would get the bus to a patch of woodland and
