About

I spent 25 years leading not-for-profit organisations and creating innovative public engagement projects as a multi-award winning artist.

In 2024 I retrained in law and now hold an LLM (Master of Laws) in International and Human Rights law, graduating with Distinction and the City Law School Prize for Excellence. In 2026 I was awarded a fully funded scholarship to research a PhD on ‘Storytelling in Climate Litigation’ and was elected to the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Lawyers Association.

I bring all this experience to organisations that want to think more deeply about how they design processes, make decisions and communicate complex ideas to strengthen the impact of their work.

What I Do

I support NGOs, legal teams and research institutions in consultancy roles across law, research and public engagement. My work includes:

• Research and analysis – investigating complex legal, scientific and policy questions and turning that research into clear, rigorous insight.

• Strategy and process design – helping teams think through complex challenges, develop ideas and design effective ways forward.

• Narrative and communication – using storytelling to help frame, sharpen and communicate complex legal, policy and campaign work.

• Writing and reporting – producing briefings, reports, articles and other materials for specialist and public audiences.

Current clients include the Foundation for International Law of the Environment, ClientEarth and Climate Spring.

How I Work

My values are:

Empathy, generosity and collaboration in partnerships
Rigour, curiosity and optimism in processes
Innovation, impact and change-for-good in outcomes

I most value the trust clients and collaborators place in me. Having founded and led my own not-for-profit organisation for 25 years, I understand the particular pressures and responsibilities that sit behind this work. I don’t offer off-the-shelf solutions. I work with care to understand each organisation, its people and what it is trying to achieve, bringing the same rigour, attention to detail and commitment I would expect from someone working within my own team.

My Approach

“When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.”

This principle (adapted from the designer Bruce Mau) has shaped how I approach creative, strategic and research work throughout my career.

(InBetweenDays) is the name I use for my independent consultancy projects, because I thrive in ‘the inbetween spaces’ – the stages of projects where there is the least amount of certainty; where ideas are still forming and where the most valuable work often happens.

Backstory

For the first 25 years of my career, I worked as both an Artist and Chief Executive with Unlimited Theatre, collaborating with world-leading researchers and institutions to communicate complex ideas to public audiences. I travelled across the world working in collaboration with NASA, creating immersive experiences with teachers in South Africa, running workshops with journalists in the Philippines and with soldiers in Papua New Guinea.

This is where I learned how to design the most efficient, creative and effective processes that maximise the likelihood of project success.

My specialism as an artist and producer was collaborations with scientists.

My main areas of research were:

Quantum physics (I was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University)
Human spaceflight (my Mini Me has flown to, and back from, the International Space Station)
Biological and human enhancement technologies (I am a cyborg)
And most dedicatedly since 2015, climate change and climate justice.

I made a show called “How To Save the Planet”, immersed myself in the science of climate change and interviewed climate scientists, campaigners and activists for podcasts and live events at festivals.

One of the people I worked with was a climate litigation lawyer who I was so inspired by, I decided to (literally) run away from the circus and retrain as a lawyer.

Bringing It All Together

I am an expert Storyteller and a specialist in International, Human Rights Law and Climate Law.

My legal training has equipped me with new skills to add to those I developed over 25 years as an artist, researcher and organisational leader. My particular focus is on how storytelling operates within legal practice – not only to persuade, communicate and maximise the impact of arguments but, crucially, to maintain the coherence of cases across large and disparate teams over extended periods of time.

In 2026 I was awarded a fully funded PhD scholarship to research the role of storytelling in climate litigation. I am also an Executive Committee member and Treasurer for the Human Rights Lawyers Association.

I continue to work in non-legal creative consultancy roles where the partnership is long-standing or just too ‘right’ to say no to.

I am also – against all my best efforts and intentions – continuing to write and produce my own projects for live performance and film.

Please visit the Projects page for more detail on current work.

Other humans whose work and values I’m inspired by include Ursula K. Le Guin, bell hooks, George Michael and Francesca Albanese.

My pronouns are they/he.