How improved accessibility and on-stage representation can drive social change
Scarlett Westbrook & Illustration: Heedayah Lockman
JoinedApril 5, 2022
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Scarlett is a climate justice activist and actor, being a leading organiser of the Birmingham school strikes which attracted turnouts of thousands shortly after becoming the youngest person in the world to have an A level in Government and Politics, which she self taught at 13. Her work saw the 2019 protest attracting 450,000 attendees nationally. Since then, she has become a prominent climate policy writer, having contributed to Bills including the English Climate Emergency Education Act which has been supported by numerous political parties. She is the youngest policy-writer globally. She is an award-winning journalist, and lobbies and speaks out for climate justice in Parliaments across the World.