Natalie Lartey

This clip is from a series of 100 life history interviews with environmental campaigners in the UK, 1970-2020. It will feature in a book published by UCL Press in 2026. The full interview, along with the rest of the collection will be searchable on the British Library’s Sound and Moving Image catalogue and the interviews will be accessible onsite at the British Library in St Pancras from February 2026. For more information visit www.royalholloway.ac.uk/ohemQuotation:I was still quite young in my career at this point. And I was having to engage with the then Greenpeace senior leadership team. And it, it was such an all-encompassing challenge for them. I couldn’t get the leadership board on board. And so the evaluation was well received. I think the feedback was taken. What else can you do? And some scoping happened. And I think eventually I got to the point where I realised the only way this would progress was if I became the lone black woman that worked kind of on my own in a small offshoot of the organisation and drove it potentially at my own expense. And I didn’t feel the organisation had the range of things in place that would allow it to fly. It, it, you know, it, it kind of wasn’t happening. And so it, it kind of- It naturally fizzled out and I chose not to really fight for it.British Library catalogue number: C2037/89 Project clip number: 168