Mark Banfield is the founding director of The Black Boy Joy Club, an organisation advancing the health and wellbeing of Black and Global Majority LGBTQI+ Londoners. He champions advocacy around Black men’s health and its intersecting determinants, supporting communities and stakeholders to create social and economic opportunities that build stronger, more sustainable neighbourhoods.
Mark brings experience in social development project management, having delivered public health programmes across the UK and internationally, working in partnership with organisations including the Terrence Higgins Trust, the British Council, Médecins Sans Frontières, and UNICEF.
In his free time, Mark enjoys being in nature, reading, cooking and has recently taken an interest in filmmaking.
Olga is Executive Director at WeMove Europe, leading strategy, campaigns, and fundraising to power people-driven change across Europe. She specialises in digital campaigning and grassroots fundraising, helping grow and mobilise a community of hundreds of thousands of Europeans while building sustainable, member-led funding.
A strategic communicator at heart, she sees storytelling and narrative as essential tools for winning progressive change. Originally from Montenegro, she has lived in London and Toronto, and now calls Bologna home, where she lives with her family.
Olivia Blocker is a communications strategist, researcher and movement worker with over a decade of experience. She currently works as a Communications Strategist at Migrant Democracy Project, building and implementing the communications strategy for their campaign for residence-based voting rights in the UK.
Prior to her tenure in the UK, she lived in Chicago for 10 years where she worked developing narrative and communications strategies for clean energy and climate justice campaigns across the United States, while staying active in local police and prison abolition – organising with Liberation Library and the Final 5 Campaign to close youth prisons in Illinois.
She is a co-author in the anthology, Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st Century Social Movements, and in December 2025 she graduated with a Masters in Strategic Communications from the University of Liverpool. She currently lives in Liverpool with her partner.
Carrie is co-Executive Director for Development and Impact at People’s Economy and has a background in organisational and leadership development, coaching, facilitation and mediation – Carrie is interested in what helps organisations and people work together for social change.
Carrie previously headed up coaching programmes in organisational and leadership development at the New Economy Organisers Network. In her free time, you can find her riding her bike, planning long cycling adventures, and desperately trying to keep her houseplants alive.
Chiara is a Senior Programme Manager at Heard where she leads programmes at the intersection of narrative change, lived experience, and popular culture – supporting people, organisations, and the media to shift perceptions through the stories they tell. Particularly, her work focused on sexual abuse and children’s palliative care.
Chiara brings expertise in designing collective impact approaches to achieve system change. She also holds a BA in Philosophy, an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS and a certificate in Cross-functional Leadership from the London Interdisciplinary School.
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.
Lucy supports and trains organisers and charities on campaigning and media, including with NEON and Sheila McKechnie Foundation.
Her career has focused on working directly with people facing injustice and marginalisation to share their stories to inform and create change.
Lucy also works as a community organiser at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Before joining the Bureau, Lucy led on media and communications at the charity INQUEST for more than seven years. She directly supported families bereaved by deaths in state care, custody and detention to share their stories and challenge the issues arising to prevent future deaths. She also co-created and co-present the INQUEST podcast, Unlawful Killing.
She has a background in journalism, including coediting the print magazine STRIKE!, which platformed radical voices. Lucy is Scottish and is currently based in Hastings.
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.
Emmanuelle (she/her) is a Policy and Campaigns Manager at human rights organisation Liberty where she works across policing, protest, surveillance and technology. She has appeared across tv and radio discussing racial justice and non-policing solutions to social issues, and has written for Red Pepper, Gal-dem, and Huck magazine amongst others.
Prior to joining Liberty, Emmanuelle worked in research and policy at Kaleidoscope Trust, advocating for the rights of communities across the globe persecuted because of their sexual orientation and gender identity due to legacies of colonialism. Emmanuelle was a founding member of the Free Black University and a researcher-in-residence at the South London Gallery where she worked with young people on responding to a colonial anthropological archive. She is also a reframing consultant for Runnymede Trust’s racial justice project.
Emmanuelle holds a BA in Anthropology and Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an MA in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice from the University of British Columbia (on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people).
Sally is a Clinical and Community psychologist and CEO of the charity Art Against Knives in London. She is passionate about addressing the intersections of social justice and mental health. She is co-founder of Psychologists for Social Change and the Housing and Mental Health Network. Sally was the Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Community Psychology Section for many years and is Co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Innovative Community & Clinical Psychologies . Outside of work and activism, Sally is committed to nature-based spirituality.
