About
In recent years, young people have led popular struggles against ecological breakdown, white supremacy, and imperialist violence. Indeed, throughout history, youth have often been at the forefront of progressive change. Our work aims to strengthen young people’s capacity to build winning, liberatory movements.
We were born out of the youth climate movement, but our work has since broadened to support all youth organisers who are building power for eco-socialist transformation.
Our Work
Political education enables people to develop consciousness of their political conditions, engage in praxis, and become protagonists in the long struggle for liberation.
Practically, our work is delivered on a scale from breadth to depth. In this way, we are able to reach young people where they are, while providing pathways towards more in-depth engagement.
Social Media
Short-form content for a mass audience
Briefs
Theory and analysis for organisers
Workshops
Educational sessions to strengthen movement organisations
Comet
Multi-month cadrefication programme for youth organisers in Britain
Team
Noah Herfort
Core Team(He/Him)
Noah is a member of the Climate Vanguard Core Team. He is motivated by the transformative role of political education in strengthening liberatory people's movements.
Favorite vegetable: 🍄
Inea Lehner
Core Team(She/They)
Inea a member of the Climate Vanguard Core Team. She aims to serve the collective liberation of human and non-human life by bringing people together to learn and build enduring, caring community. Inea hates imperialism and loves kale.
Favorite ecosystem: 🌳🌲🌳🌲
Jack Johnson
Core Team(He/Him)
Jack is a member of the Climate Vanguard Core Team. He has a keen interest in radical pedagogy and the role it can play in transforming ourselves, transforming our organisations, and transforming the world.
Favorite colour: 🟣🔵
Ana Rodrigues
Designer(She/Her)
Ana is Climate Vanguard’s graphic designer. She holds a Bachelor’s in Graphic Design from the University of Lisbon and a Master’s in Strategic Communication from the NOVA University of Lisbon. Ana hopes to use her skills to fight for a better future for all life on Earth.
Favorite bird: 🐦 (raven)
For general enquiries reach out to hq@climatevanguard.org
Board
Kai Heron
Kai Heron is a Lecturer in political ecology at Lancaster University and a co-director of the progressive policy platform Abundance. Kai is among a number of thinkers putting forward an ecological renewal of Leninism for the 21st century. He is the co-author of the book 'Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future', published in 2025.
Fatima Ibrahim
Fatima Ibrahim is the co-founder and director of Green New Deal Rising, a youth movement fighting for a transformation of the economy to stop the climate crisis and build a world in which we can thrive. She has more than a decade of experience organising, training, and mobilising international movements for change. She has worked for global NGO Avaaz, EU citizens movement WeMove.eu, and supported the development of youth climate movements from South Africa to Brazil during her years as part of the UKYCC. She is a 2020 Global Citizen Prize winner and her writing has been published in Vice, Time Magazine, The Guardian and other outlets.
Dee Woods
Dee Woods is a food and farming 'action-ist' who advocates for the right to food for all, focusing on intersectionality, equity, and decolonisation in the food system and beyond. Dee is the Food Justice Policy Coordinator and a director of The Landworkers' Alliance, a member of the Land in Our Names collective and the London Food Board, and an Honorary Research Fellow at CAWR Coventry University. Dee is also a founding member of the Food Ethics Council and a co-founder of the African Caribbean Heritage Food Network and Granville Community Kitchen.
Elizabeth Oh
Elizabeth Oh is a climate organiser based in Queens, New York. She has organised for more than a decade fighting for immigrant rights, anti-displacement, and abolition. She was previously the Coalition Organiser at Public Power NY, which passed the Build Public Renewables Act, the first local Green New Deal legislation in the United States.
James Schneider
James Schneider is a political organiser, writer and communications director for the Progressive International. He co-founded the left-wing grassroots movement Momentum and was the UK Labour Party's Director of Strategic Communications during the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. He is the author of 'Our Bloc: How We Win', published in 2022.
Jess Spear
Jess Spear is an organiser for Ireland’s largest ecosocialist party, People Before Profit, and a steering committee member of the Global Ecosocialist Network. She is originally from America where she worked as a climate scientist for the US Geological Survey and the Burke Museum of Natural History at the University of Washington before leaving research to campaign full-time. She is a co-founder of the revolutionary eco-Marxist group RISE and editor of Rupture magazine.