About us

Molly joined Make Votes Matter in November 2023 and works supporting campaigns, managing volunteers and facilitating the Young Make Votes Matter group. Molly connects with activists from all perspectives, skill sets and backgrounds and helps bring them together to work on a range of projects in the campaign for proportional representation. 

Molly has a background in working with communities to bring about change, from managing fundraising events for local food banks to youth empowerment projects in tackling the climate crisis. Molly is passionate about communities bringing about the change they would like to see in the world, and working with people to help them realise their potential to be a change maker. 

Molly has a strong commitment to justice and equality, which drives her passion for equal votes. Prior to working for Make Votes Matter, Molly worked in project management at the Ministry of Justice on a number of policy issues. Molly has a BA in Politics and International Relations from the University of Sheffield.

Emily joined Make Votes Matter in July 2025 as Fundraising Manager. Her fundraising career has taken her from fundraising at street stalls and knocking door to door, to working in Individual Giving, Digital Marketing, and prior experience as a Fundraising Manager. She now brings this experience to MVM to ensure that the campaign has the financial resources needed to win Proportional Representation.

Emily studied Political Science and Government in the US, where she volunteered in events management and advocacy for causes like refugee rights, support for houseless individuals, accessible education, and many other human rights causes. Emily believes that the bedrock of a fair and just society lies in a fair and just voting system, which is why she is committed to creating change through electoral reform.

Outside of her work with MVM, Emily runs a trauma-informed yoga business, where she is passionate about creating celebratory spaces for queer people and marginalised groups to enjoy yoga and other wellness activities. 

Ana joined Make Votes Matter in December 2024. 

Before joining the team, Ana spent a couple of years working as a communications officer and parliamentary assistant in Westminster. Previously, she also managed digital communications for a variety of campaigning organisations, including Alliance for PR member Another Europe is Possible.

Having lived in Poland, Germany and Spain, she has witnessed first-hand the benefits of political systems that include minority perspectives rather than shutting them out. She believes that Proportional Representation would be a step towards building a more equal and democratic society.

In her spare time, she enjoys reading, ice skating and meeting interesting people.

Liz joined Make Votes Matter in April 2026 as a longstanding supporter of PR. Before joining the team, she had admired MVM for many years as the only single-issue platform campaigning for the most crucial change that has to be made to revitalise democracy in the UK.

Liz has worked in a range of roles across the political world as well as across social enterprise and in business where the Planet and People come before Profit.

The ambition to see PR in place for all elections in UK politics is driven by Liz’s commitment to a fairer and greener society right across Britain.

Caroline has been working in the democracy sector since 2018 initially with Make Votes Matter working on the Labour and Trade union campaign. She then worked as part of the Labour for a New Democracy campaign as Political and Education officer as a key player in seeing Labour conference vote overwhelmingly in favour of PR.

Caroline has a wide and varied background in campaigning for various issues outside of the democracy sector, working in local communities on campaigns such installing accessible changing places toilets and accessible playgrounds and pushing back against the closure of children’s centres.

For Caroline, Electoral Reform is the cornerstone of a better politics and therefore a fairer society. Caroline signed up to Make Votes Matter because she strongly believes until we fix the root of politics we won’t get the kind of society that works for all of us.

Livvy joined Make Votes Matter in 2025 after volunteering for the organisation, and works across youth organising, campaigns, and communications. She focuses on bringing more people into the movement for proportional representation, particularly young people who feel shut out of politics.

Her background is in grassroots campaigning and political communications, with experience working on issues including climate justice, democracy, and community organising. She is especially interested in how political systems shape everyday life, and how changing them can open up fairer futures.

Livvy studied Geography at the University of Edinburgh, where she explored the links between power, place, and political participation, but first became interested in electoral systems during a year abroad at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Outside of work, she enjoys cycling, writing, and spending time outdoors.

Having spent my working life in the aerospace supply-chain, growing a boutique parts company to be the largest supplier in its sector for Europe, my focus has always been on systems and structures; a good salesperson can make a good deal while a great system will fulfill more people more readily.

The British “settlement” looks starkly wrong when observed through that lens. It lacks consequences for miscreants, it lacks legitimacy through the approval of those it seeks to govern and it massively lacks visibility. It’s my firm view that reform to a much more proportional electoral system is a vital step on the road to correcting the UK’s imbalance in wealth and opportunity because they stem from our inherent imbalance in power. Currently the UK system’s incentives are all wrong.

A finance leader with an unwavering commitment to ethical standards, I have well over 15 years of finance function experience across multiple in-house and consulting roles including at board level, predominantly supporting the growth of technology startups and scaleups. I am also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), recognised for extensive senior, strategic and technical leadership experience.

My strong desire to uphold fairness in all aspects of life, combined with an inclination for logic and achieving maximum impact through systemic change, naturally feed my passion to achieve Proportional Representation in the UK.

Surrinder was a founder member and chair of North London MVM local group in 2016-17. He went on to become the local groups & diversity lead for MVM 2018-22. He has a background of working in psychological therapies since 1991. Currently he is co-chair of MVM Sussex, and sits on the MVM board with a speciality of staff well-being and mental health.

Zaid has been a fundraiser for over 10 years working for nonprofits and for-profits in the UK and Myanmar in a diverse range of thematc areas. His experience covers Grants, Individual Giving and Philanthropy, and Corporate fundraising. He currently works as the Senior Grants Partnerships Manager at Notpla, a UK scaleup tackling the problem of plastic pollution by developing plastic substitutes made from seaweed.

Zaid has only recently become involved in politics, driven by a desire to contribute something back to the community but longs for the UK to become a truly plural, liberal democray where citizens have real, meaningful choice over their representatives. Our current electoral system is unfit for purpose and needs urgent reform if we’re to solve the complex challenges of a modern society in the 21st century.