Who we are
Everyone who works at Tipping Point is also a co-director as we are a worker-led cooperative. Below you can find out more about some of our team members. For security reasons, not all of our team members wish to be shown on this page.

Andrew Taylor, Co-Director - Finance Campaigns
Andrew has over 16 years of experience as a campaigner and trainer with various organisations including People & Planet, Electronics Watch, 350.org, and Friends of the Earth. He currently coordinates Coal Action Network’s campaign to pressure Lloyd’s of London to stop insuring the Adani coal mine, a role he continues alongside his work with Tipping Point. He leads the Defund Climate Chaos work, working particularly closely with partners like Money Rebellion, Insure Our Future and Stop EACOP.

Tatiana Garavito, Co-Director - Climate Reparations
Tatiana is an organiser and facilitator working on issues at the intersection of migration, race and climate justice. Tatiana has years of experience leading the strategic work of social justice organisations and over five years’ experience in facilitating processes for liberation and movement building. Tatiana has worked with Migrants Rights Network, HOPE not hate, Latin American Women’s Rights Services and Quakers In Britain amongst others; she is also a longstanding and founding member of climate justice collective Wretched of the Earth and co-leads the care & repair work at Tipping Point UK.

Louise Hazan, Co-Founder and Co-Director
Louise has spent two decades as a campaigner, communicator, movement strategist, community organiser and network developer at the heart of the UK and global climate justice movements. In 2011 she founded the Fossil Free divestment movement with UK student groups before spreading the campaign throughout Europe. She combines a wealth of experience in grassroots activism, communications and leveraging digital tools alongside international collaboration, with over a decade as a director and manager for organisations like 350.org, People & Planet and Friends of the Earth. Louise leads our fundraising, Movement Power strategy and Stop Rosebank work. She’s a keen allotmenter and community organiser in her spare time.

Clara Paillard, Co-Director - Trade Union Organiser
Clara has over 15 years of experience campaigning with trade unions on climate justice issues and workers rights at UK and international level. She served as the President of PCS union Culture Group for 8 years, organising with 4,000 museum workers, including Green reps. She has supported various campaigns from anti-fracking and ending oil sponsorship of museums to energy democracy & advocating for climate jobs. She has been working with or advised organisations such as Culture Unstained, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, Migrants In Culture and Platform London.

Liz Snook, Co-Director - South West Organiser
Snook has over 25 years experience of grassroots organising across a range of direct action campaigns, from the anti roads movement to Colston, via food sovereignty, Plane Stupid, anti fracking and migrant justice. They are one of the founding crew of Reclaim the Power and worked for 6 years as a coordinator of protestor support group Green and Black Cross Legal.

Melissa Céspedes del Sur, Co-Director - Reparative Justive
Melissa has over ten years of experience in grassroots organising, focussing mainly on feminist, migrant justice and anti-racist struggles. As an abolitionist, she has organised nationally and locally against the police; and has been a long-term member of feminist direct-action group Sisters Uncut. Her work is informed by her experience as a working-class migrant and a frontline worker, and she has been an active union member and rep for over five years. At Tipping Point, Melissa leads the Bank Better Campaign work, which supports groups and organisations to cut ties with the banks that finance the fossil fuel industry.

Rakesh Prashara, Co-Director - Northern England Organiser
Rakesh is a community organiser, he is the North of England Organiser for Tipping Point UK, and he supports grassroots groups that campaign on Climate and Migrant justice issues and their intersections. He works to enable more diverse voices to be heard within the Climate movement. He has a keen interest in finding ways to organise in rural spaces.

Duncan, Co-Director - Stop Rosebank Organiser
Duncan is a climate justice campaigner organising through the Stop Cambo campaign and has been a key organiser since the campaign launched 2 years ago. He builds on his previous career in education to run workshops with groups across Scotland and engage them in creative actions for the Stop Rosebank. Duncan is also a music teacher and one of the volunteer organisers of Climate Camp Scotland. He is responsible for the Stop Rosebank work happening within Scotland.

Rona Hardie, Stop Rosebank Training Lead
Rona has been organising within the Scottish social and climate justice movement for several years. At Tipping Point she coordinates the training and development programme for the Stop Rosebank network, providing facilitation and training for individuals and groups within the campaign. She recently completed part-time postgraduate studies investigating the impact that hosting COP26 has had on the Scottish climate justice movement, and now lives in Bristol where she enjoys foraging, camping and any opportunity to be in the sea. Alongside Tipping Point, Rona also works for Transition Together as the Just Transition lead, where she works on introducing justice and equity principles and practices into the work of the Transition movement.

Scarlett Westbrook, Midlands Organiser
Scarlett is a climate justice activist and journalist and is the youngest regular policy writer in Parliamentary history. She was one of the lead organisers of the School Climate Strikes and set up campaign group Teach the Future, where she leads on policy. Scarlett supports and organises with grassroots groups across the East and West Midlands.