Kirsty Wright
User profile
Kirsty is senior campaigns officer at WDM. She campaigns to keep the World Bank out of climate finance and against loans for climate change. Kirsty joined WDM in 2008 and was part of WDM’s successful campaigns to stop Kingsnorth and push for a strong Climate Change Act. Before this, she lived in New Zealand where she was campaigned on trade justice in the Pacific, conflict and climate change. She has also worked on women’s rights in Nicaragua, as a peace observer with Zapatista communities in Mexico, and with refugee communities in the Middle East. She graduated from Sussex University where she studied Media, Culture and Community focusing on social movements and political communication. Outside of work, Kirsty is also involved in anti-cuts and climate justice campaigning, and enjoys learning about bees.
History
- Member for
- 3 years 11 weeks
Blog posts by this user
| Bolivian civil society COP18 statement - Doha | 3 December 2012 |
| Urgent action: Mexican activist Bettina Cruz faces serious false charges | 28 February 2012 |
| Durban Platform: Using broken ideas to fix the climate crisis | 25 January 2012 |
| Some success on climate loans! | 19 January 2012 |
| Energy access and the complicated path to climate justice | 18 December 2011 |
| Occupying COP17 - a video report | 10 December 2011 |
| COP17: In whose interests? | 9 December 2011 |
| New climate fund looking more like 'Greedy Corporate Fund' | 7 December 2011 |
| Durban Watch: A first update from the UN climate talks in Durban | 28 November 2011 |
| US plays dirty with set up of the new Green Climate Fund | 7 November 2011 |
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