Mikaela Loach
Mikaela Loach is an acclaimed author, climate justice organiser, and speaker, recognised as one of the most influential women in the climate movement by Forbes, The Guardian, Vogue, and BBC Woman’s Hour. Prospect magazine chose her as one of the “World’s Top Thinkers” in 2024 and in 2022 she was the first climate activist to be on the cover of music and culture magazine, KERRANG!. Mikaela is the co-Director of the AWETHU School of Organising and a Safina Center Junior Fellow. She holds a degree in Global Health Policy and her impactful climate activism has garnered an online community of over 300,000 combined followers.
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, ranging from community gatherings to large international institutions and appearances on national TV and in the press.
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 new book Climate Is Just The Start was published by Random House Kids and has been awarded Junior Library Guild Gold Standard, a starred review from Booklist and the 2025 Blueberry Changemaker Award. Additionally, she co-hosted The YIKES Podcast, had a climate newsletter with The Independent, was a Sky News climate contributor and is a former medical student.
To learn more about Mikaela Loach, please visit her website https://www.mikaelaloach.com or follow her on Instagram or TikTok @mikaelaloach