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Our Team

Our team are passionate about radical climate action – and want to empower schools to make it happen.

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Let’s Go Zero Team

Alex Green

Head of Let's Go Zero

Alex is the Schools Lead for Ashden and leads on Let’s Go Zero 2030. She managed Ashden’s sustainable school awards and peer to peer LESS CO2 programme for 7 years before launching the Let’s Go Zero campaign in 2020.

Suzanne gibbon

Project Manager

Suzanne helps to build the movement of change by engaging with local authorities and organisations. She also speaks with schools directly, collecting inspirational stories that have made strides on their path to zero carbon.

Alison Lasenby

Project officer

Alison works on the OVO Foundation Nature Prize, which awards schools for creative nature projects that inspire climate action and bring students closer to nature.

Suzy Van den Eynde

LGZ Coordinator

Suzy manages the Let’s Go Zero sign up process, liaising with campaign partners and participating schools

Lucy Archer

Climate Action Advisors Project Manager

She manages a team of Climate Action Advisors who support school leaders, local authorities and others to carry out projects that reduce emissions, inspire young people and spark change in the wider community.

Max Evans

Grant coordinator

Max is a member of the Let's Go Zero team, supporting schools to reach zero carbon by 2030. He coordinates the Zero Carbon Fund which funds established programmes and projects who are helping schools in the UK to decarbonise.

Alex Seal

Climate Action Specialist

Alex helps to provide the most appropriate and effective guidance to our team of Climate Action Advisors by engaging with best practice and sharing examples of successful decarbonisation schemes more widely to inspire progress. He also speaks with wider partners directly, ensuring that the most up to date routes to zero carbon are shared widely and are accessible for all.

Jo Walton

Director of Communications & People

Jo has been at Ashden since 2005 and is responsible for our communications. She is also a member of the Executive Management team with particular responsibility for HR. She is a keen gardener, dog walker and reader and trying to be a better piano player.

Tara Choudhury

Campaign communications coordinator

Dan Ritman

Impact Lead

Dan helps Let's Go Zero to ask and answer questions like, What difference are we making in the world? How can we tell? How can we strengthen our approach? He aims to embed curiosity, evidence and learning in our programme delivery and strategic thinking.

Salomé Smith

Climate Action Advisor Project Assistant

Salomé supports the coordination and impact tracking of the Climate Action Advisor programme. With a background in human geography, social research, and education, she is passionate about climate justice and supporting schools on their sustainability journey.

Sam Owen

Digital Lead

Sam looks after Let's Go Zero's online presence, making sure our website is the best it can be, positioning Let's Go Zero as a bold voice for change across our digital channels, and growing our online community to maximise reach and impact.

Friederike Metternich

Climate Action Advisor Project Manager

She manages a team of Climate Action Advisors who support school leaders, local authorities and others to carry out projects that reduce emissions, inspire young people and spark change in the wider community.

Lucy Blackburn

Senior Corporate Partnerships Officer

Lucy is responsible for the stewardship of Let's Go Zero's corporate partners and fostering new relationships, both in the UK and internationally. At its heart this means the development of partnerships that are mutually beneficial and based on a shared commitment to sustainability.

Will Walker

Policy Lead

Will is a local and community energy specialist with 15 years' experience in a range of a policy and delivery roles, including central government where he was brought in to lead the development of the UK’s first Community Energy Strategy. 

Climate Action Advisors

Jo Pettifer

East Midlands
Jo is a Climate Action Advisor Team Leader for the East and West Midlands, Her work includes supporting school leaders, local authorities and others to carry out projects that reduce emissions, inspire young people and spark change in the wider community.
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Rosie Pincott

West Midlands
Rosie was a science teacher in Portsmouth and Bangkok, where she developed environmental groups and delivered school projects to drive sustainability. She says it’s great to be part of a mission that aims to drive change in a meaningful way towards zero carbon, and to share the passion of the people around her.
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Cindi Blunt

East Midlands
Born and bred in Derbyshire, Cindi’s work has centered around environmental and local authorities, with fundraising, baking and voluntary work thrown in. Cindi has worked in schools over the years and seen first-hand how local authorities interact with schools and where the opportunities are.
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Sarah Mills

West Midlands
Having worked as a TV producer, secondary teacher, sustainability group leader, volunteer coordinator and fundraiser, Sarah is looking forward to tapping into all of this experience to help schools make the biggest possible impact on their carbon footprint in ways that make the most sense to their community.
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Jelly Mae Moring

East Midlands
Jelly has been working in the third sector for over a decade in housing research, programme management and sustainability management. She helps run a weekly walking bus at her son's school and she’s a member of the council at a parent climate movement supporting parents to take climate action in their community
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Kumari Kher

West Midlands
Kumari has specialised in mental health for children and as a health visitor for 18 years. Working in the community has given her an understanding of the inequality in schools and the importance of making a difference.
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Catherine Odell

South East and West
Catherine is the Team leader for South East and South West. She has worked with schools for 20 years, supporting them to explore global issues in ways that can really engage young people and amplify their voices to make positive change happen.
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Chanodi Ratnayake

South East
Chanodi has a master's in Urban climate and Sustainability, and a background in Architecture. She previously worked with schools raising awareness and inspiring positive change in sustainable transportation.
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Libby Terraz

South East
Libby has lived in Southampton for over 20 years. She has loved working with the super enthusiastic ‘Planet Protectors’ at her last school, where she was a primary music teacher. Libby even goes grocery shopping on her bike, and has been known to carry a watermelon back in the basket.
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Felicity Brambling-Wells

South East
Prior to joining the team, Felicity was engaged in more than a decade of work on environmental and social sustainability in Higher Education. She specialised in peer-to-peer engagement and gamification of climate education and action, drawing on her background in behavioural psychology and youth work.
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Melanie Parr

South East
Mel has a degree in Wildlife Conservation and enjoys volunteering in the UK and abroad in animal rescue centres, planting trees, carrying out surveys, and tracking animals. She previously worked for a local authority on a range of environmental projects and campaigns.
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William Ewens

South West
Will has worked in education for 19 years, most recently as a headteacher of two schools in Somerset. He has a great understanding of the challenges that school leaders are under and has these in mind when supporting schools. Will uses an electric bike, electric car, solar PV array and battery at home, with an intention to become carbon neutral.
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Jen Gale

South West
Jen’s ‘ecopiphany’ came when she decided her family would buy nothing new for a year back in 2012. This opened her eyes to the issues facing the planet and how our own consumption decisions can make a difference. She created an online platform called ‘Sustainable(ish)’ which is focussed on imperfect eco-action for ordinary.
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Paula Malone

South West
Paula has been a primary school teacher and worked with Energy Sparks. She’s a trustee of Wicked Weather Watch, a charity focused on inspiring children to take climate action. She’s passionate about empowering children to take positive action.
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Hannah Bowring

East of England & London
Hannah is the team leader for London and the East of England. She is deeply committed to inspiring everyone to do their part in living sustainably within the limits of our planet's resources.
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Holly Campbell

London
Holly has an MSc in Sustainable Urbanism, and worked at the UK Green Building Council as a Sustainability Learning and Leadership Advisor.
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Nige Stannett

East of England
Nige’ has a wealth of climate action experience working with schools & communities. This includes delivering energy saving programmes in schools & managing community climate action programmes for local authorities.
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Luciana de Almeida

East of England
Luciana worked with primary schools in Essex getting school children to lead on energy saving. She has extensive carbon reduction experience with local authorities and has led a collective purchasing scheme for solar panels.
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Oci Stott

London
Oci says this is her dream job because it combines her experience in urban planning and sustainability and her previous role as a secondary school teacher, teaching in London for 13 years.
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Anna Orridge

London
Anna was the Green Co-ordinator at the Harris Federation, an education charity led and run by teachers. She’s on the steering committee of Croydon Climate Action, installing air monitors at schools and planting trees in nature-deprived areas.
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William Cappuyns

London
William has a Masters in Urban and Environmental Management so is skilled in creating sustainable & resilient solutions to different urban & environmental challenges.
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Jeremy Williams

East of England
Jeremy has been writing articles and books about climate change and how we respond to it for over a decade.
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Aisyah Duggie

North West
Aisyah is the team leader for the North West of England. Her background is in environmental consulting, where she was responsible for managing multi-disciplinary teams to deliver environmental impact assessments.
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Tom Heaton

North West
Tom was a chemistry teacher and head of department in secondary schools for ten years. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering materials, having researched alternative binders for masonry with a lower carbon footprint.
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John Broderick

North East, Yorkshire and Humber
John has been a carbon accountant for 15 years after writing a PhD on emissions trading at the Tyndall Centre Manchester. He moved back to County Durham nearly ten years ago, retrofitting an old chapel into a modern, energy efficient home.
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Aurora Trujillo

North West
Aurora has a PhD in Environmental Politics. She has been part of a variety of grassroots climate action campaigns, with a specific focus on the promotion of cycling.
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Rob Cattrall

North East, Yorkshire and Humber
Rob is the team leader for North East & Yorkshire and Humber. He has worked as a Geography teacher for 10 years and has been a senior leader in Doncaster and across a Multi-Academy Trust.
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Richard Berry

North East, Yorkshire and Humber
Richard spent 20 years working as an energy efficiency specialist and environmental manager for a worldwide IT and Facilities management corporation.
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Danielle McArdle

North West
Danielle’s background includes teaching and leading in inner-city Primary Schools and, more recently, Project Management of retrofit projects for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
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Matt Keyse

North East, Yorkshire and Humber
Matt has previously worked as an A-level geography and geology teacher. Matt has also been a senior tutor for the field studies council and a Community Scientist for the Open-Air laboratories project.
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Katherine Humpleby

North East, Yorkshire and Humber
Katherine was recently a senior leader across a Multi-Academy Trust, including leadership of primary and secondary teacher training. She is an inspector for Church of England schools and a Diocesan school development adviser. Previous roles have included Head of Geography and Geography teaching. She volunteered as a Trustee for three Multi-Academy Trusts.
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