Author, Organizer, & Speaker
Mikaela Loach
About
Mikaela Loach is a Jamaican-British acclaimed author, climate justice organizer, and speaker, recognized as one of the most influential women in the UK climate movement by Forbes, Global Citizen, and BBC Woman’s Hour. Prospect magazine has described her as one of the “World's Top Thinkers” in 2024. Her impactful climate activism has garnered an online community of over 280,000 combined followers, reaching over 1 million people with her videos on climate and social justice every month.
Mikaela’s work is deeply rooted in community organising. Her activism includes organising with grassroots climate movements such as Stop Cambo, Fossil Free Books, Resist Glencore and The UK Black Eco Feminist Collective, conducting workshops at international climate justice camps and at local schools - one of which even named a classroom after her - and delivering keynote speeches at various events across the world, ranging from community gatherings to large institutions and appearances on national TV and in the press. She is the co-director of the AWETHU School of Organising.
Mikaela has boldly challenged powerful entities, calling out billionaires at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s annual event, taking the UK government to court in the landmark "Paid To Pollute" case in 2021, and challenging Shell’s CEO and board at their AGM for their human rights abuses to people of the Niger Delta in Nigeria.
Mikaela is the best-selling author of It's Not That Radical: Climate Action To Transform Our World, a compelling call for climate justice published in April 2023 by Dorling Kindersley, a division of Penguin Random House. Her debut book won the Non-fiction Author of the Year award in Bookshop.org’s Indie Champion Awards. Her next book Climate Is Just The Start will be published by Random House Children's in March 2025 and is a Junior Library Guild Selection. Additionally, she co-hosted The YIKES Podcast and is a former medical student.