I like a challenge. Which is fortunate as my work involves heading up an NGO that exists to depolarize politics on both sides of the Atlantic. Alongside that, I act as the Strategic Advisor to The Conflict Resolution and Depolarization Lab at Stanford's King Center. My debut non fiction book about this work, Poles Apart, written with Laura Osborne and Alex Chesterfield will be published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

I'm a frequent keynote speaker and political commentator. Google will find me in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, BBC, The Economist and more.

Outside that, I'm lucky to hold a few extra appointments. Firstly, as Vice Chair of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, which uses its $80m fund to support political causes that strengthen the hand of the politically powerless. Secondly supporting Open Democracy as a board member and thirdly providing the strategic communications advice to FreeWill, an awesome start up that has got $750m pledged to good causes in two years.

Born and bought up in South Wales, I headed up Communications and Mobilization functions for some of the UK's best known NGOs, then came to Stanford as a Sloan Fellow.

For fifteen years, I was a senior political advisor and active member of the Liberal Democrats. Becoming Deputy Chair of the party at 29. In 2012, I was one of four women who whistleblew about unwanted sexual advances by Lord Rennard. Investigations that found me credible, but involved no sanction led me to close that chapter of my life, and begin a new one in America. (I generally decline media requests about this - but once wrote about the experience)