Josh is a community organiser and campaigner with over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of climate justice, human rights and youth-led social change.
Based in London, Josh is currently Senior Organiser - Youth at Amnesty International UK, where he supports a national network of young activists to organise and campaign on civic freedoms, economic inequality, and international human rights crises. His work focuses on supporting young people to move from awareness and anger at the state of the world to collective action through movement-building and community engagement that makes human rights issues tangible, urgent, and winnable.
Prior to this, Josh was a co-founder of Tipping Point Australia, where he helped establish a first-of-its-kind organisation supporting grassroots climate justice movements to build power and run strategic campaigns. He helped build collaborations that brought together Traditional Owners, Pacific Islander communities, farmers and youth organisers to challenge the impacts of fossil fuel expansion, including the global Stop Adani campaign. Earlier in his career, he worked with 350.org, supporting national fossil fuel divestment campaigns and helping to grow volunteer-led organising across Australia.
His work is grounded in community organising principles of deep listening, relationship-building across differences, identifying shared challenges, developing people-powered plans, and creating pathways for people most affected by inequality to lead. Josh holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University, where he studied environmental and social systems with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to complex challenges. He was awarded Young Australian Environmentalist of the Year in 2016. As an Atlantic Fellow, Josh is exploring how rising inequality is shaping the political identities of young men, and how community organising approaches might be adapted to engage them in ways that both strengthen democratic participation and advance gender and economic justice.
I’m inspired by people who keep showing up, especially young people navigating huge uncertainty and injustice, but still choosing to organise and push for structural change. Many of the most powerful moments I’ve seen start small: someone realises they are not alone, speaks out publicly, or takes a first step into leadership. Those moments of bravery can grow into something much bigger, as people move from carrying an individual burden to recognising a collective struggle. That’s what keeps me hopeful.Josh Creaser