I'm a screenwriter, climate campaigner and founder of Messy Collective, a community of over 3,000 writers. My Fellowship focuses on climate storytelling development programmes, with the aim of improving opportunities for UK creatives from diverse communities to tell compelling and impactful climate narratives.

While UK writers are passionate about climate stories, we lack the development infrastructure that exists in the USA. US organisations have pioneered support systems that help creators develop climate narratives for mainstream audiences, but the UK has just a handful of comparable programmes.

My motivation comes from working at the intersection of filmmaking and climate action. I have three climate-focused feature films in development and have completed programmes with both Climate Spring and UCL's Climate Action Unit. Through this work, I've seen how much UK creatives want to contribute to climate discourse but struggle without proper development pathways. I'll spend six weeks learning from US development programmes in New York and Los Angeles, attending the Climate Film Festival and meeting with programme leaders, participants and the wider industry.