About me

After graduating from a Philosophy degree at the University of Barcelona, I spent a couple of years teaching philosophy, ethics and politics in adult colleges in Barcelona. I then went on to complete an MA in Values and the Environment at Lancaster University, followed by a PhD in Environmental Politics at Reading University. My PhD explored how liberalism facilitates or prevents sustainable lifestyles. 

When I was completing my MA, I fell in love with cycling again, after not having cycled since childhood. As well as going on many cycling holidays in the Lake District, I toured the country campaigning for a less car-centric society with Bicycology, a grassroots activist collective. 

After finishing my PhD, I set up, alongside two others, Freewheelers Bicycle Workshop, a workers’ co-operative the aim of which was to make cycling more accessible to those who identified as women. We offered women only maintenance courses, a tool club and sold second hand bikes and affordable bike parts and accessories. 

Building on that experience, I worked for the London Cycling Campaign co-ordinating a programme of grants for community projects promoting cycling in London. I then took my community development and grant funding skills to the National Lottery Community Fund, where I worked on the Reaching Communities programme. During my time at the Fund, Reaching Communities’ ambition was to become more accessible to grassroots organisations embedded in the community. 

Over the years, I have also been involved in a variety of local and national campaigns and I have reflected about the role of activism and social change in our personal lives and how to make campaigning more sustainable for those involved.