I have lived in Merton since 2000, first in Morden and then in Raynes Park, and my wife and I have raised our two boys here over the last 18 years.

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My working life has almost entirely been spent in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector – in the areas of social housing, homelessness, addictions recovery, health inequality, and youth work – at local, regional and national levels. I am an experienced board member and leader, having held numerous trustee, director, chair and CEO positions. I currently have a portfolio career of various roles, including founding and managing an award-winning small business which is restoring habitats for nature and biodiversity in Derbyshire.

I am part of The Salvation Army’s Raynes Park Community Church and have served on the leadership team of the church for much of the last 15 years. I have a degree in Human Cybernetics from the University of Reading and an MBA from Imperial College, London, and have been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 2012. I joined the Green Party in 2019, and want to see people and planet flourish. At a local level, that means good quality and genuinely affordable housing, vibrant green spaces, clean air, excellent public transport, and the provision of community resources for all. Nationally and internationally, that means addressing the climate crisis as a matter of urgency, which will also entail addressing gross inequality and the unjust, racist nature of climate change, and committing to a much more peaceful, collaborative international order, free of weapons of mass destruction.