Katie has two decades’ experience writing for consumer media. Her passion for independent reporting led her to Which? Magazine, where she became a senior writer, researcher, news writer, investigator and eventually a deputy editor.

She spent two years in Mumbai at Right Choice Magazine, the ‘Indian Which?’, where she was responsible for planning, commissioning, writing, subbing and editing as well as managing staff and external suppliers. During this period she was also a contributing co-editor for UK-based GreenSpirit Magazine.

When Katie Hill co-founded My Green Pod in 2013, she combined her experience in independent and investigative journalism with her passions for climate justice, women’s rights, clean living and the environment. The publication, which was distributed with The Guardian until 2021, now reaches over 8 million people and remains independent.

As editor in chief, Katie has exposed a ‘microplastics dodge’ in cosmetics, the ‘dark side’ of bubbles in mainstream products and ‘second-wave greenwash’ from companies cashing in on the growing demand for ethical products. She frequently writes about the importance of detecting sideshows that represent distractions in terms of the bigger picture: shifting to a conscious lifestyle by supporting companies that operate in service of people and planet.

Katie is also a UN Women UK delegate for CSW67/CSW68/CSW69, a regular judge for the Beauty Shortlist Beauty & Wellbeing and Mama & Baby Awards and has been ranked in the top 25 Who’s Who in Natural Beauty list. She speaks on panels and at events, including Fully Charged and the Natural and Organic Products Europe trade show at ExCeL London.

Katie is currently focusing on the intersection between environmentalism and feminism, because she sees that the climate crisis, lack of food and water and ensuing conflict will have a vastly disproportionate impact on women and children, who are the most innocent parties.

80% of climate refugees are women and roughly 70% of the food we eat globally is produced by smallholder and subsistence farmers in Asia and Africa – the vast majority of whom are women.

The number of women who need help and support – whether as refugees or victims of the climate emergency – is only set to grow, and Katie feels very strongly that this is where attention – from the media, corporations and politicians – needs to be focused.