Natasha Walter is a feminist author and campaigner.
Natasha's new book, Feminism for a World on Fire, will be published on 7 May 2026.
Natasha is the author of four other books: Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance; Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism and The New Feminism, as well as a novel, A Quiet Life. For all book-related events and enquiries, please email Zoe.Hood@littlebrown.co.uk
Natasha is the founder of the charity Women for Refugee Women, where she was the director for 15 years, taking it from a small project to a charity supporting and empowering hundreds of refugee women and campaigning for justice in the asylum process. She led the campaign against the detention of women, Set Her Free, organised conferences, gave evidence to Parliamentary committees, authored verbatim plays on refugee women's experiences, and commissioned and published ground-breaking research with refugee women. She is currently chair of the charity Makani, which works with refugee women in Lebanon and the UK. If you would like to talk to Natasha about non-profit and campaigning consultancy work, including facilitation, strategic planning, and mentoring for feminist leaders, please email contact@natashawalter.co.uk
Natasha has worked as a journalist for the Guardian, the Independent and the Observer, and as a broadcaster on arts and political programmes on radio and television, including Channel 4 News, BBC Breakfast and BBC Woman's Hour. If you would like to talk to Natasha with a view to commissioning an article or booking broadcast, please email contact@natashawalter.co.uk
Natasha has spoken at dozens of varied events, including the Women's March in London and the End Sexual Violence in Conflict conference, given lectures at Cambridge University, and chaired panels at academic and political conferences. If you are interested in booking Natasha for an event in 2026, please email Zoe.Hood@littlebrown.co.uk
Natasha was a Junior Teaching Fellow at Harvard University in 1989 and the Humanitas Visiting Professor of Women's Rights at Cambridge University in 2015. She is currently Honorary Professor at the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice, Queen Mary University of London.
Upcoming events:
13 May: Conway Hall, London: Feminism for a World on Fire with Carole Cadwalladr and Aja Barber
21 May: Brighton Festival, Feminism for a World on Fire, with Shahed Ezaydi and Azieb Pool
Recent events:
'We are free to change the world', Dash Arts, with Mohammed Ali and Tasneim Zyada, 22 January 2026
History and Politics: panel discussion with Michael Gove, Robert Harris and Gill Bennett at Queen Mary University of London, 28 March 2025
In conversation with Esther Freud, Felixstowe Literary Festival 29 June 2024
In conversation with Harriet Wistrich, Owl Bookshop Kentish Town, 27 June 2024
In conversation with Catherine Taylor, Stoke Newington Literary Festival, 8 June 2024
Women and the climate emergency, event at Kairos Club London, 23 May 2024
In conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Daunt Books London, 25 March 2024
In conversation with Robin Ince, Laugharne Weekend Festival, 18 March 2024
In conversation with Rebecca Abrams, Jewish Women's Life Writing Series, Oxford, 21 November 2023
In conversation with Linda Grant, Hornsey Library, 19 October 2023
In conversation with Cathy Rentzenbrink, Falmouth Festival, 20 October 2023
In conversation with Sam Baker, Wigtown Festival, 23 September 2023
A grab bag of recent media:
Print:
The revolutionary women of Rojava are in grave danger, The Guardian (comment). 22 January 2026
Woman, Life, Freedom: how the women of North East Syria built a new world, The Observer (feature), 9 February 2025
No go areas for Jews? The Observer (comment), 9 March 2024
Review of Julia by Sandra Newman, The Guardian (review), 18 October 2023
Protest at your peril, The Observer (feature), February 2023
Audio:
BBC Woman's Hour, August 2023
The Shift with Sam Baker, September 2023
The Bunker with Rosamond Taylor, January 2023
Video:
Why the climate crisis is a crisis for women, with Helen Pankhurst, Chantelle Lunt and others, 2023
BBC Breakfast, on refugee women in detention, 2020
Natasha's new book, Feminism for a World on Fire, will be published on 7 May 2026.
Natasha is the author of four other books: Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance; Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism and The New Feminism, as well as a novel, A Quiet Life. For all book-related events and enquiries, please email Zoe.Hood@littlebrown.co.uk
Natasha is the founder of the charity Women for Refugee Women, where she was the director for 15 years, taking it from a small project to a charity supporting and empowering hundreds of refugee women and campaigning for justice in the asylum process. She led the campaign against the detention of women, Set Her Free, organised conferences, gave evidence to Parliamentary committees, authored verbatim plays on refugee women's experiences, and commissioned and published ground-breaking research with refugee women. She is currently chair of the charity Makani, which works with refugee women in Lebanon and the UK. If you would like to talk to Natasha about non-profit and campaigning consultancy work, including facilitation, strategic planning, and mentoring for feminist leaders, please email contact@natashawalter.co.uk
Natasha has worked as a journalist for the Guardian, the Independent and the Observer, and as a broadcaster on arts and political programmes on radio and television, including Channel 4 News, BBC Breakfast and BBC Woman's Hour. If you would like to talk to Natasha with a view to commissioning an article or booking broadcast, please email contact@natashawalter.co.uk
Natasha has spoken at dozens of varied events, including the Women's March in London and the End Sexual Violence in Conflict conference, given lectures at Cambridge University, and chaired panels at academic and political conferences. If you are interested in booking Natasha for an event in 2026, please email Zoe.Hood@littlebrown.co.uk
Natasha was a Junior Teaching Fellow at Harvard University in 1989 and the Humanitas Visiting Professor of Women's Rights at Cambridge University in 2015. She is currently Honorary Professor at the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice, Queen Mary University of London.
Upcoming events:
13 May: Conway Hall, London: Feminism for a World on Fire with Carole Cadwalladr and Aja Barber
21 May: Brighton Festival, Feminism for a World on Fire, with Shahed Ezaydi and Azieb Pool
Recent events:
'We are free to change the world', Dash Arts, with Mohammed Ali and Tasneim Zyada, 22 January 2026
History and Politics: panel discussion with Michael Gove, Robert Harris and Gill Bennett at Queen Mary University of London, 28 March 2025
In conversation with Esther Freud, Felixstowe Literary Festival 29 June 2024
In conversation with Harriet Wistrich, Owl Bookshop Kentish Town, 27 June 2024
In conversation with Catherine Taylor, Stoke Newington Literary Festival, 8 June 2024
Women and the climate emergency, event at Kairos Club London, 23 May 2024
In conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Daunt Books London, 25 March 2024
In conversation with Robin Ince, Laugharne Weekend Festival, 18 March 2024
In conversation with Rebecca Abrams, Jewish Women's Life Writing Series, Oxford, 21 November 2023
In conversation with Linda Grant, Hornsey Library, 19 October 2023
In conversation with Cathy Rentzenbrink, Falmouth Festival, 20 October 2023
In conversation with Sam Baker, Wigtown Festival, 23 September 2023
A grab bag of recent media:
Print:
The revolutionary women of Rojava are in grave danger, The Guardian (comment). 22 January 2026
Woman, Life, Freedom: how the women of North East Syria built a new world, The Observer (feature), 9 February 2025
No go areas for Jews? The Observer (comment), 9 March 2024
Review of Julia by Sandra Newman, The Guardian (review), 18 October 2023
Protest at your peril, The Observer (feature), February 2023
Audio:
BBC Woman's Hour, August 2023
The Shift with Sam Baker, September 2023
The Bunker with Rosamond Taylor, January 2023
Video:
Why the climate crisis is a crisis for women, with Helen Pankhurst, Chantelle Lunt and others, 2023
BBC Breakfast, on refugee women in detention, 2020