Core team
Rupert Read
Co-Director
Rupert Read is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and co-director of the new Climate Majority Project. He authored several books, including This Civilisation is Finished, Parents for a Future and Why Climate Breakdown Matters and has been many times on the Today programme, QuestionTime, Newsnight, Politics Live, Al-Jazeera, and more.
Liam Kavanagh
Co-Director
Liam Kavanagh is a Cognitive & Social Scientist devoted to using his understanding of human motivation, ideology, and economics to aid more effective responses to the climate crisis. He has worked on three continents over 20 years doing applied social research, co-founded Life Itself, a community for responding to the poly-crisis, and written a book on how Western ideology contributes to climate change inaction.
Caroline Lucas
Climate Courage and SAFER Campaign Advisor
Caroline Lucas was the UK’s first Green MP (2010-2024), and before that served for 10 years in the European Parliament. She has also served as both Leader and Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. She is a writer, campaigner and keynote speaker, with a particular interest in the role of education and the arts in mobilising action on the climate and nature emergencies. She has won numerous awards for her work: in 2020 she topped the list of the BBC Radio Woman’s Hour One Planet Power List, and in 2024 the UK’s largest sustainable business awards scheme presented her with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Her latest book, a Sunday Times bestseller, is Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story.
Jadzia Tedeschi
Coordinator
Jadzia Tedeschi is deeply convinced of the symbiosis between mind, society, and environment. While she was born and grew up in rural central Italy, although most of her work is currently UK-based. Within the Climate Majority Project, she coordinates across campaigns and initiatives and organises the Raft gatherings.
Josephine Lethbridge
Communications and Logistics Lead for the Climate Courage campaign
A writer, communications expert and project manager, Josephine has bridged the worlds of research and journalism for the past decade. She spent eight years as an editor at The Conversation UK, and trained hundreds of academics how to write for the public. Since then, alongside her freelance journalism, she’s partnered with a wide range of organisations, from media outlets (The Bureau for Investigative Journalism), to academic institutions, to NGOs and grassroots initiatives (Faculty for a Future; the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission; Climate Acceptance Studios). Josephine leads the logistics and communications strategy for the Climate Courage Campaign.
Les Gunbie
Community coordinator for the Climate Courage campaign
Les is an experienced learning mentor committed to changing the life chances of children and young people as they move through the education system. He has a background in international development partnership working, education for sustainability, and forest school – and has been involved in community and climate activism in Brighton & Hove over many years. He aims to enable others to come together, recognising the value and potential that each person brings, so as to take successful collective action towards a better education system and a fairer world.
Rupert Read
Co-Director
Rupert Read is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and co-director of the new Climate Majority Project. He authored several books, including This Civilisation is Finished, Parents for a Future and Why Climate Breakdown Matters and has been many times on the Today programme, QuestionTime, Newsnight, Politics Live, Al-Jazeera, and more.