• Leader of the Green Group on the City Council
• Represented Abbey since 2021
• Long-term Abbey resident

Naomi has lived in Abbey for over 20 years and has represented the ward on the City Council since 2021. There have been many challenging issues in this time, including: the congestion charge, the redevelopment of the Beehive Centre, the Easy Hotel, the future of the Ekin Road estate and a rise in antisocial behaviour. Naomi has kept to her pledge to listen to and work with residents on these issues and has worked hard to provide support and guidance to all residents who contact her.

• Long-term resident and Green activist
• Musician and conductor
• Background in software engineering

Stephen has lived in Cambridge for over 40 years. After working as a computer software engineer, he studied conducting in St. Petersburg, and now teaches singing and performs around the region. Stephen has conducted the Cambridge Youth Orchestra and the University Opera Society. He has a particular interest in money systems, philosophy and consciousness, all strongly bound up with green issues. He joined the Greens in 1999, when proportional representation was introduced in the EU voting system.

• Student of Land Economy at Lucy Cavendish College
• Cambridge Young Greens committee member
• Climate activist and community volunteer

Esmé is studying Land Economy at Lucy Cavendish College. Critical of the unchanging pro-growth stance of the Labour council, she believes that electing more Green councillors is the only credible path to a fairer, greener Cambridge. Green councillors are not governed by the party whip, so are free to stand up for local residents’ priorities.

Esmé wants to join our growing group of Green councillors in pushing for practical solutions to the pollution in the River Cam, divesting Council funds away from dirty industries, and tackling the city’s inequality crisis. She wants a Green council that doesn’t just recycle old ideas.

• Chair of the Cambridge Young Greens
• Climate activist and community volunteer

Josh is a student living in the centre of Cambridge who is excited that the Greens have been challenging the business-as-usual approach of the Labour-dominated council, working hard on behalf of residents through the cost-of-living crisis and pushing the council to go further in tackling the climate and nature crises.

If elected, his priorities are to campaign for a fair and green transport system, retrofitting council homes for warm and affordable homes and securing renters’ rights by implementing a landlord licensing scheme to protect the city’s renters.

• Co-Membership Officer for Cambridge Green Party
• Long-term Cambridge resident
• Background in teaching and housing

Cambridge has been Sarah’s home for over 20 years and she is now raising her five-year-old son in Coleridge with her partner. Sarah has observed the inequality of opportunity rife in Cambridge through her work in education and in the housing sector. She has worked hard to support local campaigns to provide genuinely social housing (at social rents, not only affordable rents) and protect and enhance our green spaces in Coleridge.

Sarah believes Coleridge could make history this year and elect her as its first-ever Green councillor. “Many residents feel local government is out of touch. Our track record of listening to, and working with, residents is inspiring many people to Vote Green. We only need to swing 220 votes to win!”

• Cambridge Green Party convenor
• Retired lecturer in Biology and Ecology
• Long term East Chesterton resident

Elizabeth worked as a Biology lecturer and her last post included lecturing in environment and ecology. As her university’s environment manager, she helped decrease the university’s energy use and reinvest savings in further energy reduction measures such as a solar panel roof. Her special interest is biodiversity – the variety of life. She set up a wildlife area on one of the university campuses.

Now retired, she works actively on the local Friends of Logan’s Meadow group and helped organise the tree planting there in autumn 2021. Her priorities as a candidate are: reduction of carbon dioxide emissions to combat climate change and the protection and improvement of local green spaces.

Robin has been a resident of King’s Hedges for over four years now, moving here shortly after completing his PhD in Chemistry to work on the nearby Science Park. He has been with the Greens for a decade and sees them as the only party to inspire and be boldly different. Robin can often be found walking, cycling, and getting the bus around the King’s Hedges area.

If elected, Robin will join in with the work of Cambridge’s other hard-working Green councillors who speak up for their ward and their priorities. Robin wants to see a Cambridge that stands for both social and climate justice: a city that warmly brings together diverse people from many backgrounds, and can be enjoyed for many generations to come. He will campaign for expanded affordable and accessible public transport, better quality of life in rented housing, and keeping King’s Hedges’ treasured green spaces clean and safe.

• Sustainable energy professional
• Interest in active travel and improved public transport

Kris has lived in Cambridge for the last nine years. He is a sustainability professional specialising in energy technologies who believes that Cambridge has the potential to be at the forefront of innovation and sustainability, with a young population, bicycle-friendly size and topology, and a strong local economy based on knowledge.

Kris envisions Cambridge becoming more walking and cycling friendly, with retrofitted, energy-efficient building stock, comfortable public transport and citizens treated fairly, with equal opportunities, regardless of gender, heritage, disability, neurological profile or other traits.

• Governor at Newnham Croft Primary School
• Treasurer of Newnham Croft Social and Sports Club
• Founding member of South Newnham Neighbourhood Forum

Hugh has lived in Newnham for over 40 years and has lots of experience in public groups and with managing public budgets. He is on the Governing Body of Newnham Croft Primary School, which his daughter attended, and is a long-serving member of its Finance and Personnel committee. He has also been treasurer of the Newnham Croft Social and Sports Club since 2017, which is now back in trading profit for the first time in many years.

Hugh is standing to help the Green Party deliver their promise to challenge the direction of the City Council, speak up for residents and put social justice and the environment at the heart of every decision. “The rate of development in Cambridge is unsustainable and we are in danger of growing into a sprawling metropolis. ‘Consultations’ are ignoring local voices and badly thought-out projects are being imposed on our communities. We need an alternative and more democratic approach to address the stress on water supply, transport infrastructure, housing and public services.”

• Mechanical engineering professional
• Local cub scout leader
• Interested in urban planning for a green & active city

Zak has studied and worked in Cambridge for 7 years, experiencing life across the city. He’s a big fan of Cambridge’s cycling culture and wants to see the city become a model for active and public transport. Zak is interested in the existing systems of our society, and how we can use them to build better lives for everyone while also protecting nature.

Zak’s priorities for local government are active travel, housing quality & affordability, public transport, and biodiversity.

• Ex-Parish Councillor for Teversham
• Long-term South Cambridgeshire resident

Oliver has lived and worked in South Cambridgeshire for over 15 years. He is very passionate about tackling issues that impact our city and community. As a Parish Councillor in Teversham for 9 years, Oliver has experience working in local government and understands the effort needed to achieve results and the importance of collaborating with others.

He believes that we face many big challenges in Cambridge and that he can offer a lot to help us find a fair and sustainable way forward.

Born in neighbouring Coleridge, Iain has lived in Romsey for over 25 years. Iain sees the only future for society is one where sustainability, inclusivity and equality are at the heart of all decisions. “All voices need to be listened to and understood, not just those voices that are the loudest. Living together is not easy, and difficult decisions will need to be made, especially with so many crises we collectively face. But, with openness, honesty and responsibility these decisions can be made to benefit everyone. A community that includes everyone in the decision-making process values everyone in that community and therefore strengthens that community.”

Iain understands the value of having wildlife close to where people live and believes we are all responsible for the sustainable use of water and resources. He would like to see an increase in local food growing and for there to be affordable (in the true sense of the word) and healthy homes for all Romsey residents, old and new.

• Committee member of Cambridge Young Greens
• Works and studied in Cambridge

As a Cambridge Young Green Committee member, Chloé has worked hard to support local Green campaigns and promote youth and student engagement in Green politics. After moving to Cambridge for postgraduate study and having since transitioned into employment, she is well-acquainted with the challenges that come with rising costs of housing and transport. Chloé believes that more Green representation on the City Council is essential to address these issues in a fair and sustainable way.

• Long-term local resident
• Historian, teacher and researcher
• Environmental campaigner

Shayne has lived in Chesterton for over twenty years. She has worked as a historian, lecturer, social policy researcher, editor, cinema usher and vegetable picker. Her daughter attended Milton Road Primary School and Chesterton Community College, where Shayne was heavily involved in helping organize PTA events.

Shayne says “The climate emergency is upon us. It needs to be at the centre of every decision and every action by the City Council. Transport – by foot, by cycle and by bus – is crucial. Having spent years trying to get around with small children, and frequently suffering disabling back pain, I know the difficulties many of us face in negotiating city streets.

I am passionate about the quality of our public spaces and about the built environment. Too much of what is being built is too big, too high and does not best serve our community. Cambridge deserves better.”

If elected to the City Council, Shayne aims to listen and to serve the local and city-wide community.