Earth Month 2025: Our Power, Our Planet

Join us for a fascinating conversation to mark the beginning of Earth Month 2025.

We'll be bringing together leading environmental thinkers Dara McAnulty and Emma River-Roberts, who each have a unique perspective on environmental activism, in conversation with Dr Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul of ARU’s Global Sustainability Institute.

Our speakers will talk on the theme of this year’s Earth Month: Our Planet, Our Power.

About our speakers

Dara McAnulty is the award-winning author and environmental campaigner. His first work of non-fiction, Diary of a Young Naturalist, won the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing in 2020, making him the youngest-ever winner of a major literary prize. In 2019, aged just 15, he won the RSPB’s medal for conservation, making him the youngest-ever recipient of this prestigious award.

Emma River-Roberts is the Founder and Co-Director of the Working Class Climate Alliance, a UK-based, international non-profit that aims to increase the presence of working class voices in the climate movement, and help working class communities and trade unions campaign for progressive change. Emma is also a PhD Researcher at Goldsmiths University, specialising in working class environmentalism. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul is a political ecologist based at the Global Sustainability Institute at ARU. Her work is focussed on smallholder agro-commodity farmers’ perspectives. Her work is at the nexus of climate adaptation, poverty, food security, and forest governance. She has founded and managed social enterprises in Côte d’Ivoire and Mozambique. She has conducted research at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Anglia Ruskin University, and Warwick; the London School of Economics; the Swedish International Development Agency, and for CCAFS (Climate Change, Agriculture, & Food Security).