Mikaela Loach

 ( Year Of Birth Missing ) 

Mikaela Loach is a British climate justice activist, author, and former medical student.

(2024). 9781487556334, University of Toronto Press. . ISBN 9781487556334

She was brought up in Surrey, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is a medical student at the University of Edinburgh who published a book and uses social media for campaigning, named as one of the Prospect top thinkers in 2024.

Alongside Jo Becker, Loach is the co-producer, writer and presenter of the Yikes podcast, which explores climate change, human rights and social justice. She is the author of the book It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World (2023). In 2025, she published a book for young people, Climate is just the start.

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Early life and education Loach was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a British father and Jamaican mother, and moved to Surrey, United Kingdom. In the UK, Loach attended Farlington School.

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Campaigning

Loach advocates for environmental justice, racial justice, sustainable fashion, as well as speaking out on issues such as white supremacy and Refugee law.

Leah Thomas (2022). 9781800812864, Profile. . ISBN 9781800812864

She also seeks to make the climate movement more inclusive and promoting 'active hope' and collective action, which extends to all "emitting" industries and areas of cultural institutions and of event sponsorship.

(2025). 9780367421168, Routledge. ISBN 9780367421168

Rachel Spence (2024). 9781787387751, C.Hurst (Publishers) Ltd. ISBN 9781787387751

During part of 2019 Extinction Rebellion climate crisis protests in London, Loach locked-on for eight hours in an attempt to prevent police clearing a site. She also campaigns with Climate Camp Scotland. She was a speaker at Zurich Insurance Group's Youth Against Carbon Conference. In 2020, Loach created the Yikes podcast with Jo Becker.

Lynne Jones (2024). 9781911723035, C.Hurst (Publishers) Ltd. ISBN 9781911723035

In December 2021, Loach took part in a judicial review alongside other activists, to challenge the UK Government's oil and gas strategy. In January 2022, the High Court found against the activists, stating the case had "no basis in the statute". But her "Stop Oil" campaigning continues and has an impact on young activists.

Charlie Hertzog-Young (2023). 9781804440605, Footnote Press. ISBN 9781804440605

(2023). 9781802202458, Edward Elgar Publishing. . ISBN 9781802202458

A related campaign Loach engages in is against fast fashion and supply chains bringing the physical, environmental damage and human rights issues together, and attempts to improve advice and practices in the market,

(2025). 9780367703400, Routledge. ISBN 9780367703400

and has concerns about the hidden emissions from buildings.

Tom Woolley (2024). 9781040026175, Taylor & Francis. . ISBN 9781040026175

She was one of the authors who disrupted the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2024, in relation to sponsorship concerns. Loach sees the various campaigns as integrated, comparing her "networks of resistance" to a network of fungi, linking trees in a forest.

Amber Massie-Blomfield (2024). 9781804440742, Footnote Press. . ISBN 9781804440742

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Publications

• It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World. London: DK, 2023. .
• Climate is just the start. New York: Bright Matters (Random House), 2025. .

Categories: Year Of Birth Missing, Alumni Of The University Of Edinburgh, Black British Activists, British Climate Activists, British Women Bloggers, British Women Podcasters, English People Of Jamaican Descent, Jamaican Activists, Jamaican People Of British Descent, Jamaican Women Activists, Living People, People From Kingston, Jamaica, People From Surrey

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