Lucy Brisbane McKay

Lucy is a community organiser, working primarily with the Bureau Local team. Her career has focused on working directly with people facing injustice and marginalisation to share their stories to inform and create change. Before joining the Bureau, Lucy led on media and communications at the charity Inquest for more than seven years. She directly supported families bereaved by deaths in state care, custody and detention to share their stories and campaign for change. She also cocreated and presents the Inquest podcast, Unlawful Killing. Lucy also supports and trains activists and charities on campaigning and media, including with the New Economy Organisers Network and Sheila McKechnie Foundation. She is on the board of trustees of the Public Interest Research Centre. She has a background in journalism, including coediting the print magazine Strike!, which platformed radical voices. Lucy is Scottish and is currently based in Hastings.