Mikaela Loach

Mikaela Loach is an acclaimed author, climate justice organizer, and speaker, recognized as one of the most influential women in the climate movement by Forbes, The Guardian, and BBC Woman’s Hour. Prospect magazine chose her as one of the “World's Top Thinkers” in 2024. Loach holds a degree in Global Health Policy, and her impactful climate activism has garnered an online community of over 300,000 combined followers.

Loach’s work is deeply rooted in community organizing. Her activism includes organizing 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, 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 and a Safina Center Junior Fellow for 2025.

Loach 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.

Loach is the best-selling author of "It's Not That Radical: Climate Action To Transform Our World," a compelling call for climate justice. Her debut book won the Non-Fiction Author of the Year award in Bookshop.org’s Indie Champion Awards.

Her latest book, "Climate Is Just The Start," has been awarded a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard and a starred review from Booklist. Additionally, she co-hosts The YIKES Podcast, had a climate newsletter with The Independent, was a Sky News climate contributor and is a former medical student.