I joined PIRC in 2025 as Head of Operations, responsible for strategic leadership, people and culture and operational infrastructure.
I bring 15+ years of experience working across ‘for social good’ sectors as a community builder, facilitator, fundraiser and consultant — with a focus on building anti-oppressive cultures, redistributing power and resources, and growing liberatory practices from the inside out.
My work is rooted in lineages of deep connection to land and collective care. I’m passionate about creating spaces where radical imagination can flourish, and building the cultures, processes, relationships, skills and capacities needed to transform our boldest visions into reality.
#CommunityOrganising #GenerativeCulture #Facilitation #Somatics #OperationalDesign #CollectiveCare #DisabilityJustice #CreativeExpression #Lego #GooglyEyes
Nathan is a writer, campaigner, and strategic communications adviser. He works with organisations from grassroots campaigns to international NGOs communicating on migration and border violence, climate justice, peace, and human rights.
He has previously worked in media and communications on local and national election campaigns, for emergency services and public bodies, and in the humanitarian sector. He holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Politics from the University of Oxford and a joint MSc in Global Development Policy from three European universities.
Alexander Leon (he/him) is an internationally recognised facilitator, educator, speaker, and writer.
Throughout his career, Alexander’s work has spanned a variety of industries and topics, focusing primarily on advocacy / communications strategy, and anti-oppression. Whether training government ministers on LGBTQ+ inclusion, upskilling grassroots activists on how to integrate race and class into their campaign messages, or educating businesses on the importance of understanding systemic oppression, Alexander’s approach is anchored in a strong sense of justice, an avid curiosity, and an openness to play. He has co-designed and delivered trainings for NEON, Greenpeace, Ulex, Stonewall, LinkedIn, and others. His writing has been featured in The Guardian, BBC, Huffington Post, 14poems, and more.
Tamsyn is Director of Evidence at FrameWorks UK. She works to understand how people think about social issues – and what changes those things. An expert in narrative and strategic communications, Tamsyn works with mission-driven organisations across Europe to translate framing research into practice on such issues as health inequality, homelessness, child welfare and access to justice.
Before joining FrameWorks, Tamsyn was a consultant at the FrameWorks Institute, and headed digital and strategic communications at Equally Ours, a network of organisations working to advance equality and human rights. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and an MA from the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
My involvement with PIRC focuses on reshaping elements of the curriculum through an accessible, decolonial lens and dreaming up new ways of bringing PIRC’s wealth of resources to those who are ready to make some magic with them.
Narrative change happens to be the ‘golden thread’ that ties together the various elements of my professional journey, from challenging dominant narratives through spoken word artivism, music, writing on marginalised topics for platforms including the Huffington Post and Elephant journal, to consulting for NGOs and commercial brands and decolonial comms and thought-practice. So I’m very much looking forward to the natural connections, insights and developments I anticipate will emerge through this work.
Outside of office hours I enjoy making music, hyperfocusing on my latest research interest(s), getting messy with my little ones and experimenting with ways to divest from colonising systems, inside and out.
#freepalestine #freecongo #freehaiti #freesudan #decoloniseeverything
Kennedy (they/he) is a facilitator and strategic campaigns and communications specialist with 10 years of experience.
They’re currently a senior organiser campaigning around energy justice and they recently worked with NEON to develop their messaging and framing training.
Mina Jack (neutral or masc pronouns) is a trans and non-binary activist, politician, consultant, thinker, and artist from the Mediterranean.
They’ve been working on developing campaigns, raising awareness, and doing communications on LGBTQI rights, green politics, electoral campaigns, and roller derby for just over a decade.
Want to have a chat about media ethics with regards to LGBTQI representation, and non-binary, fluid and liminal framing in communications? Just get in touch, MJ loves distractions.
Sho is a freelance communications coach for activists. He has advised groups from anti-corporate farmer collectives in the Philippines, to abortion rights campaigners in Mexico, to trans groups in Eastern Europe – with everything from messaging to media relations.
Originally from London, based in Amsterdam, his side-projects focus on demystifying comms: like a “Bluffer’s Guide to Framing” and a YouTube channel about communications for activists.
I’m one of the newer PIRC team members and I am a Community lead at PIRC. My work centres around the upcoming Narrative Leadership Programme PIRC is developing and I will be supporting participants on this programme, with their wellbeing and learning. I have an academic background in international politics and racialisation.
Previously my work has focused on anti-racism, inclusion, climate justice and leveraging diaspora knowledge within global solidarity. Through all my work I try to weave in my knowledge of interconnected struggles for liberation. Care, rest and imagination are my north star in working towards a more just, equitable and caring society.
Outside of work, I love eating ethnic food (iykyk), cooking for my loved ones, watching depressing shows, video essays and going to concerts!
#blackjoy #qtibpoc #timhortons #mywife #enjoyment #ilovemusic #iwillnotstandforrenassainceslander #imjustlivinglifelikeababygal
Elena is a facilitator, writer, researcher, community activist, and leader of organisational development. For over a decade she’s been creating spaces for groups to explore and develop narrative; designing and leading framing projects; shaping organisational strategy and creating new organisational infrastructure. She recently joined KIN as a co-director, seeking to create spaces for liberation, healing and joy for black activism. She’s also an aspiring artist, tarot dabbler, Octavia Butler fan and parent of a toddler who likes cats more than people. Originally from East London, raised in Manchester, now fully rooted in the rolling green of mid-Wales: her ideal landscape for radical imagining.
James is a freelance trainer, facilitator and strategist with over twenty years of experience working with environmental and social justice organisations. He’s an associate at PIRC and NEON where he helped develop and train on the Movement Builders programme. James has always had a passion for music and produces in the soul duo Equals and for the alt RnB group GRAMN.
I worked with the lovely people at PIRC for over 3 years. Facilitating and creating toolkits was my main area of work (and still is, but I am now Framing Matters)!
I am really keen on putting framing into practice. The theory is fascinating but can sometimes be disconnected from our everyday work. Making framing something everyone can do, no matter what their role or sector, is really exciting to me. (I probably need to get out more!)
I also think that training should be fun and memorable, but that makes me sound a bit more enthusiastic than I am in real life.
While at PIRC, I wrote the Framing Nature Toolkit and co-wrote Common Cause for Nature.
Becky works in Production Accounts in Film and TV and has previously worked at political publishers Lawrence & Wishart and as a freelance events producer for organisations including the TUC and the Amiel & Melburn Trust.
Becky brings to the PIRC board financial and budgeting understanding, as well as a decade of experience working and volunteering across the not-for-profit sector. Becky has an MA in International Studies from SOAS and is an active member of the Scottish Green Party.
Head of Programmes
I joined the PIRC team in 2018 as a group facilitator, trainer and participatory organiser, with a background in community theatre. I now support the development of our narrative-change curriculum and learning resources.
I’m passionate about developing creative, care-centred, and engaging tools and approaches to help strengthen and nurture us in our work for social change.
I’m also super into our flat structure, and all the experimentation and learning that we’ve done to evolve this since 2015. I have coordinated our People, Programming and Direction work at different points since joining the team.
Previously, I’ve worked on climate justice, human rights and community organising locally, nationally and internationally, and I’ve developed training, group-working support and political education resources for a variety of different groups working on social, environmental and economic justice.
Outside PIRC, you’ll find me organising drag cabarets, swimming in rivers, reading on the sofa, hosting friends & community gatherings, playing boardgames and supporting local protests and picket lines.
Skills & interests:
#facilitation #foooooood #participation #stories #learning #pedagogy #cycling #dobble #liberation #photography #drag #workshops #ganttcharts #wildswimming #orgculture
Poppy is the youngest member of the team. What she lacks in experience she makes up for in enthusiasm. Dividing her day into long periods of dozing interspersed with short bursts of high energy activity, Poppy has quickly fitted into the working culture here at PIRC.
Skills & interests:
#running #bouncing #food #snoozing #slippers #chewing #frizzball
