Mikaela Loach

Mikaela Loach is a renowned author, climate justice organiser, and speaker, recognised as one of the UK’s most influential women in the climate movement by Forbes, Global Citizen, and BBC Woman’s Hour. In 2024, Prospect magazine named her one of the “World’s Top Thinkers.” With an online following exceeding 280,000, her activism has made a significant impact.

Mikaela’s work is deeply embedded in community organising. She has been involved with grassroots movements such as Stop Cambo, Fossil Free Books, Resist Glencore, and The UK Black Eco Feminist Collective. She has led climate justice camps internationally, spoken at schools—one of which named a classroom after her—and delivered keynote speeches at events ranging from local gatherings to major institutions and media appearances. She is also the co-director of the AWETHU School of Organising.

She has challenged powerful institutions head-on, confronting billionaires at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s annual event, taking the UK government to court in the pivotal “Paid to Pollute” case in 2021, and holding Shell’s CEO and board accountable for human rights abuses in Nigeria.

Mikaela is the best-selling author of It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action To Transform Our World, published in April 2023 by Dorling Kindersley, a division of Penguin Random House. Her book won Non-fiction Author of the Year in Bookshop.org’s Indie Champion Awards. Additionally, she co-hosts The YIKES Podcast and is a former medical student, further showcasing her diverse expertise in activism and education.