Scarlett is a British climate activist, the youngest ever policy maker and a coordinator and head of political engagement for Teach The Future, a youth-led campaign that aims to transform education around the climate emergency and ecological crisis.
She joined the climate movement aged 10 and became the youngest person to pass an A level in government and politics at just 13.
As part of her work with Teach The Future, Scarlett co-authored a bill – the English Climate Emergency Education Act – with Labour MP Nadia Whittome on transforming climate education, and is regarded as the youngest policy writer in the world.
As a coordinator and spokesperson for the UK Student Climate Network, Scarlett organised student climate strikes in 2019 when 7.6 million global students missed Friday classes and demanded change.
She has spoken at the European Parliament and Westminster and won a number of awards including a Women of the Future Young Star award in 2020 and a Diana Award in 2021. She attended COP26 in Glasgow and, following this she wrote an opinion article for the Independent and has been profiled in the Evening Standard and Observer.
Scarlett is now planning to study medicine at university.