Who

The Team

Core Team (He/Him)
Noah is a researcher and activist fighting for a liveable planet. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of St Andrews and a Master of Public Administration from University College London. Noah is part of the Climate Vanguard Core Team.
Favorite vegetable: Mushroom 🍄
nh@climatevanguard.org

Core Team (He/Him)
Jack part of the Climate Vanguard Core Team. As a researcher and activist he is passionate about transforming systems to emancipate people and planet. Jack holds a degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of St Andrews.
Favorite colour: 🟣🔵
jj@climatevanguard.org

Core Team (She/They)
Inea is part of the Climate Vanguard Core Team. She aims to serve the collective liberation of human and non-human life through radical social-ecological transformation. Inea hates imperialism and loves kale.
Favorite ecosystem: 🌳🌲🌳🌲
il@climatevanguard.org

Designer(She/Her)
Ana is Climate Vanguard’s graphic designer. She holds a Bachelor’s in Graphic Design from the University of Lisbon and a Master’s in Strategic Communication from the NOVA University of Lisbon. Ana hopes to use her skills to fight for a better future for all life on Earth.
Favorite bird: 🐦 (raven)
anasvrod@gmail.com

James Schneider is a political organiser, writer and communications director for the Progressive International. He co-founded the left-wing grassroots movement Momentum and was the UK Labour Party's Director of Strategic Communications during the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. He is the author of Our Bloc: How We Win.

Dee Woods is a food and farming 'action-ist' who advocates for the right to food for all, focusing on intersectionality, equity, and decolonisation in the food system and beyond. Dee is the Food Justice Policy Coordinator and a director of The Landworkers' Alliance, a member of the Land in Our Names collective and the London Food Board, and an Honorary Research Fellow at CAWR Coventry University. Dee is also a founding member of the Food Ethics Council and a co-founder of the African Caribbean Heritage Food Network and Granville Community Kitchen.

Kai Heron is a Lecturer in political ecology at Lancaster University and a co-director of the progressive policy platform Abundance. Kai is among a number of thinkers putting forward an ecological renewal of Leninism for the 21st century. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future (2025).

Elizabeth Oh is a climate organiser based in Queens, New York. She has organised for more than a decade fighting for immigrant rights, anti-displacement, and abolition. She was previously the Coalition Organiser at Public Power NY, which passed the Build Public Renewables Act, the first local Green New Deal legislation in the United States.

Jess Spear is an organiser for Ireland’s largest ecosocialist party, People Before Profit, and a steering committee member of the Global Ecosocialist Network. She is originally from America where she worked as a climate scientist for the US Geological Survey and the Burke Museum of Natural History at the University of Washington before leaving research to campaign full-time. She is a co-founder of the revolutionary eco-Marxist group RISE and editor of Rupture magazine.

Fatima Ibrahim is the co-founder and director of Green New Deal Rising, a youth movement fighting for a transformation of the economy to stop the climate crisis and build a world in which we can thrive. She has more than a decade of experience organising, training, and mobilising international movements for change. She has worked for global NGO Avaaz, EU citizens movement WeMove.eu, and supported the development of youth climate movements from South Africa to Brazil during her years as part of the UKYCC. She is a 2020 Global Citizen Prize winner and her writing has been published in Vice, Time Magazine, The Guardian and other outlets.