I’m obsessed with exploring how narrative can be effective at connecting real or imagined worlds and characters with meaningful action in real life, and how the act of creating narrative can drive change.

Particularly in the context of climate change (in a post-1.5 degree era) and AI ethics, safety and governance (in a post-ChatGPT world), I’m focused on the role stories play as we move beyond dystopia and into a nuanced interpretation of the world around us, and what’s to come next.

As a filmmaker and storyteller:

• I have three feature films in development in the UK and Europe, all of which feature climate and AI as central to the story, and optioned a feature about air pollution that was developed for TV.
• I’m developing a ‘renewable energy’ sitcom as part of the Climate Spring Hot House, supported by BBC Writers and Film London, and developed a ‘corporate ethics’ sitcom at Cinestory’s Episodic Lab in 2024.
• I was fellow at the University of London, in the UCL Climate Action Unit as part of their Creative Storytelling Policy Fellowship, exploring how narrative and culture can build agency and change among policymakers.
• I’m currently completing a Churchill Fellowship, researching how we can encourage and support a diverse and impactful range of climate narratives on screen.
• I’ve made two short films about AI ethics, using the intersection of sex and technology, and my third short film is about the concept of living through ‘the end of the world’.
• I speak on panels and provide training to storytellers looking to include climate narratives in their work, including at the BFI Future Film Festival.

As a campaigner:

• I led on a worldwide engagement campaign and authored the resulting report exploring how to increase hope to combat climate doomism in partnership with the UN’s Department for Global Communications, producing 7 videos in 7 continents illustrating international optimistic visions, and gathering over 60,000 responses in an online engagement activation.
• I worked on a Wellcome-supported campaign around the impact of climate on rising temperatures in the UK, producing a series of videos designed to reach disempowered and climate skeptical demographics in the UK.
• I worked with Renewable Energy Installer magazine on finding ways to break down barriers to domestic uptake of green energy solutions.
• I run new writing development programmes with my writing collective, Messy, and put on new writing nights themed around climate.
• I consult on technological, cultural and media ethics and this has involved speaking on the morality of AI training at CogX AI Summit, participating in the Chartered Institute of PR’s Social Media Ethics consultation, giving evidence on fake news as part of the All Party Parliamentary Group on cybersecurity, my comments on nudes and privacy that led to a discussion in the House of Lords, and my ongoing work against press abuse and hacking as part of the Hacked Off campaign following the Leveson Inquiry.