Who we are
Our People
Founded in 2008, Tripod is a collective of facilitators, trainers and organisers from a range of grassroots backgrounds, identities and experiences.
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TripodFounded in 2008, Tripod is a collective of facilitators, trainers and organisers from a range of grassroots backgrounds, identities and experiences.
Olga is an experienced trainer, facilitator and project coordinator. Before Tripod she worked with Nourish Scotland, a NGO campaigning for food justice, where she focused both on grassroots movement-building and policy change. She has a background in Social Anthropology and has been involved with different groups working for social and climate justice over the past 10 years. She’s interested in how we can support each other to act collectively and strategically in this time of spiralling social and ecological chaos, and stay resourced for the long-haul.
Likes: Mustard yellow, collecting (and sharing) poems, creative porridge-making, funky Dutch sayings.
Dislikes: Sitting still for too long, Zoom issues, Brie cheese.
Aoife joined Tripod in August 2020 as a trainer, facilitator and project coordinator. They have a background in science and have been involved in feminist organising, campaigns for reproductive justice, queer liberation and climate justice. Having participated in various kinds of organising groups and contexts they’re fascinated by the ways in which we can counter wider injustice and transform our ways of working from the small scale and create effective, subversive, dynamic and fulfilling movement spaces. Aoife can be found baking, knitting, and reading YA & sci-fi.
Likes: chocolate, spreadsheets, hot drinks of all kinds.
Dislikes: turnips, the cold and the colour yellow.
Rosa has joined Tripod as Operations Coordinator. She previously worked as the HR lead for The New Leaf Co-op, a workers co-operative concerned with promoting sustainable and ethical food infrastructure. She also is experienced in community development work addressing the impacts of health insecurity, gender-based violence and intimate partner violence. Her background is in Social Anthropology where her focus was on Black feminist intersectionality & queer theory. This has provided a lens through which Rosa analyses the interpersonal dynamics of collectives, striving towards a healthy ecology. Rosa is deeply invested in the support of psycho-emotional health, the collective nervous system, and what it is to belong.
Likes: making jewellery from recycled silver, hot water bottles and hugs.
Dislikes: supermarkets, raisins in savoury dishes, being asked ‘can I touch your hair?’
Jovan is an antiracist activist and community organiser who joined Tripod in 2025 to coordinate our conflict mediator training. Before Tripod, he worked with antiracism in policymaking, funding and charity leadership. He is interested in storytelling about where we came from, the revolutions that built us, the future we fight for, and how we build those utopias right now in our movements, communities and workplaces. He would also love to chat with you about why that future doesn’t include cops.
Likes: sci-fi and fantasy stories, avakaya pickle, coziness and looking out for each other.
Dislikes: good intentions that go nowhere, being cold and boiling potatoes when you really should have fried them.
Ellie Muniandy is an anti-oppression queer POC therapist, trainer and facilitator who has supported many organisations with their anti-racism journeys. They have worked in the third sector for many years in disability, mental health and violence against women and obtained experience in strategic and operational development and governance for charities. They have a keen interest in organisational culture change, and currently work as the EDI Officer for a public sector organisation.
Likes: Foraging, cooking, sauna
Dislikes: Parsnips
Jessica is a writer and climate justice organiser. She works part-time as a Digital Campaigns Manager for Lighthouse, Edinburgh’s radical bookshop, facilitating connections between readers, grassroots campaigners, community groups and writers. She’s the author of the novel How We Are Translated (2021) and the essay collection The Nerves and their Endings (2022). Over the years she’s been active in various activist collectives, including Global Justice Bloc and Climate Camp Scotland.
Likes: swimming in lakes, Fridays, drumming, wall-climbing (with ropes), almost all of the ice-cream
Dislikes: being cold, bad subtitling, rum and raisin ice-cream
Elena is a facilitator, writer, researcher, community activist, and leader of organisational development. For over a decade she’s been creating spaces for groups to explore and develop narrative; designing and leading framing projects; shaping organisational strategy and creating new organisational infrastructure, and has recently joined KIN as a co-director, seeking to create spaces for liberation, healing and joy for black activism.
She’s also an aspiring artist, tarot dabbler, and Octavia Butler fan, and parenting a toddler who likes cats more than people. Originally from East London, raised in Manchester, now fully rooted in the rolling green of mid-Wales: her ideal landscape for radical imagining.
Kathryn has been involved in various ways in environmental and social justice movements for more than 35 years and has been offering training and facilitation to grassroots groups and movements since 2004. She was a founding member of the training collective Seeds for Change Oxford (now Navigate). She is passionate about supporting groups to collaborate effectively, engage with conflict, address power dynamics and build resilient systems and cultures.
To help her stay energised she loves walking through woodlands or by the sea, growing things, hanging out with friends and meditating.
