Founder and Director
The New School
Lucy is the Founder and Director of The New School, an educational charity and democratic school in South London. Lucy has spent a number of years researching what a school model of education could look like when it is structured in a way that values relationships, equity and inclusion. Our education system today categorises this educational model as ‘alternative’, making most settings private, and therefore cost prohibitive; often excluding the young people most advantaged by this relational model. With a growing mental health crisis in the UK, Lucy is interested in what we can learn from The New School – a non-fee-paying alternative educational model in action – as well as the broader social and emotional outcomes that are generated, in order to challenge the current educational narrative in the UK and better support teachers and
young people.