Charles Darwin Foundation
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CEO
Dreamer and/or visionary
As CEO, Keira co-leads the organisation's vision and oversees relationships with our new and existing Partners — a role that recently saw the team named co-op of the year last year. Having worked with not-for-profits for almost her entire career, she has a drive to make the world better and deep expertise in using not-for-profit tech to get there.
Keira started her career in political campaigning and moved into digital via digital campaigning and fundraising technology. She has a deep appreciation for mobilisation: each individual has the power to make a significant difference, and technology has an important role as the amplifier and springboard for progress.
Currently obsessed with: why digital lobbying is broken — and how to fix it.
After a decade selling political campaigning technology, Keira has turned her insider's view into a critic's. She's investigating the mass email campaigns aimed at MPs and the structural gap between what those campaigns ask for and what MPs can actually deliver — built on primary interviews with MPs, parliamentary researchers, caseworkers, and senior campaigners. It's led her to her own framework, the Zone of Political Influence, and to "the invisible layer" of researchers and caseworkers who quietly decide whether a campaign lands. She's also increasingly worried about the democratic risk of an AI-driven lobbying arms race.
She's taken this to the Political Tech Summit (Berlin) and the eCampaigning Forum, and delivered the keynote "The Tech's Fine, We're the Problem" at the Engaging Networks Community Conference. The findings have already reshaped real campaign emails — with positive feedback from MP's offices. She writes about it regularly; start with Redesigning digital lobbying.
When she's not working, you'll find Keira at the beach, sewing something for her house or son, cooking from her favourite cookbook (Bazaar by Sabrina Ghayour), writing a cookbook or doing DIY on her fixer-upper house.
Get in touch! If you'd like to have a virtual cuppa, feel free to get in touch. Whether that's planning a digital project, your thoughts on the stats of digital campaigning or something completely different, you can reach Keira via email anytime.
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