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.

Head of Programmes

I joined the PIRC team in 2018 as a group facilitator, trainer and participatory organiser, with a background in community theatre.

As of 2025, I’m our Head of Programmes, responsible for our strategic direction and delivery of our narrative change work. Before taking on this role, I led on the development of our narrative-change curriculum and learning resources. Alongside my programmatic work for PIRC, I have also led our People, Programming and Direction work at different points since joining the team.
I’m passionate about developing creative, care-centred, liberatory tools and approaches to help strengthen and nurture us in our work for social change.

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 playing with my little person and our chosen family, 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: #foooooood #participation #stories #learning #pedagogy #facilitation #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.

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Finance Lead and Resources Group

I lead Finance and the Resources group at PIRC, looking after our funds,  facilities and legal obligations.

I arrived at PIRC in 2009, following a decade working in public sector administration for the Welsh Government and Legal Aid amongst others.

Outside of PIRC I’m a director of a successful community business and trustee of a small local charity. My experiences in each of these roles bring insights to PIRC and vice versa.

Prior to moving to mid-Wales in 1998, I have lived in London, Surrey, and Leeds—where I became immersed in environmental and social activism—as well spending three years working in Greece on sea turtle conservation.

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