Baz Ramaiah has worked throughout the education system – as a teaching assistant for students with special educational needs, as a secondary school teacher in two of the UK’s most deprived local authorities, and as a developer of educational technology for teachers in low-income countries. He is currently a Senior Associate at The Centre for Education and Youth where he researches and campaigns for a range of progressive educational causes. He writes regularly for the press on issues in education, including for The Financial Times, the Evening Standard, Tribune and Jacobin.
Charlie Macnamara is head of organising at the Independent Workers union of Great Britain (IWGB) and a member of the steering group of The World Transformed.
Cilla’s background is in labour and co-operative (formal and informal) learning as a researcher, educator and practitioner. She is interested in exploring and writing about union coops and radical anti-capitalist higher education alongside radical pedagogy, the history of work and lived experience. Cilla is currently co-chair of LMT and sits on the Outreach Working Group.
David Castle is Editorial Director at Pluto Press, a radical book publisher. He is also Publisher at the Left Book Club. He was previously Deputy Editor of Red Pepper magazine.
Esther Selsdon is an award-winning writer and journalist and a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow. She teaches writing skills at University College London, amongst other places, and runs grassroots writing and debating projects across England.
Hiba Ahmad is a community organiser and political educator based in South London. Hiba works at The Advocacy Academy where she organises for better political education, for the creation of radical and caring intergenerational community spaces, and to create better cross-movement partnerships and collaboration. Hiba is passionate about internationalism and organises broadly in South London on issues of anti-gentrification and police brutality.
James (he/him) is a campaigner and organiser with 15 years experience working in movements for health, migration, climate, and housing justice. He has spent the last 8 years at Medact coordinating the Patients Not Passports campaign to resist migrant charging in the NHS. Prior to this he worked with Docs Not Cops on their campaign calling for universal access to the NHS, was a Nurse in A&E, and spent many years working on community-led planning in North London. He is currently organising alongside nurses from across the South East of England with the Royal College of Nursing.
Kitty Webster works at Trussell where she supports food banks to build power in their communities and organise around issues driving poverty, including social security, housing and local transport. Kitty has worked in a wide-range of campaign and communication roles across the third sector, and has been involved in left media projects including Red Pepper and the Bristol Cable. Kitty is passionate about making activism and social movements accessible for caregivers and those with families.
Martin McIvor is a researcher and policy adviser who has worked mostly for trade unions and also in thinktanks, academia and in Parliament for the Labour Party. He is a former editor of the left ideas and strategy journal Renewal.
Meg’s background is in transforming our education system to ensure climate and social justice are centred in all aspects of learning. They’re a Director at Students Organising for Sustainability and has lead on advocacy initiatives aimed to create step change for greater inclusion in the UK environment sector. Meg has worked with education trade unions to support their work on establishing a Green New Deal for the education workforce. Internationally Meg has worked with student unions and youth to mobilise for climate justice and sustainability in education policy.
Sally Young has worked in the community and voluntary sector and in the NHS for over forty years. She is actively involved in supporting and engaging with a number of voluntary and community organisations and local leaders. Most of Sally’s work has focussed on poverty, tackling inequalities and enabling people to have a voice. She is a feminist, a socialist, an activist and a campaigner. Her particular interests are women’s issues, children’s and young people’s wellbeing, and asylum seekers and refugee rights. She lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Tatevik Sargsyan is a design strategist with over a decade of experience working with social change organisations, specialising in strategy, innovation, and cross-sector partnerships. She works with philanthropic foundations and trusts across Europe, focusing on new models of funding, anti-oppressive frameworks, and facilitating transformative learning journeys. She is also founding publisher and editor of Anamot Press and a Trustee of the Poetry Translation Centre.
Oonagh Ryder has worked in the charity and community sector for over a decade, focusing on social justice. She is Operations Manager at an arts-led reuse project providing essential baby clothes and equipment to mums facing financial hardship across London. Her previous work spans policy, research and front-line support in areas including criminal justice, maternity support and climate justice. Her work is grounded in a commitment to building sustainable, inclusive organisations that work towards transformative economic and social change.
