Mairi Lowe
Communications Manager and Producer at the School of System Change
Background
Mairi (she/they) is a communications 'generalist specialist' and systems practitioner committed to contributing to a just, regenerative and thriving world for all. Currently she works as the Communications Manager and a Producer at the School of System Change, and she consults other charities and nonprofits as a freelancer.
Their experience has unfolded across nonprofit leadership, sustainability, systems change, climate and social justice, social enterprise and innovation, community building and collective impact, content marketing, academic research and teaching, events management, grassroots activism, and change management.
In late 2019 Mairi co-founded and up to early 2023 co-led Sustainable Fashion Scotland (SFS), a nonprofit which connected the fashion community in Scotland and accelerated collective action for positive change. Her master's dissertation investigated the role of the facilitator in a community systems change approach with a focus on fashion in Scotland; the resulting five recommended guiding principles influenced the strategy and actions at SFS. Along with two other community members, SFS was selected by the UK Cabinet Office to exhibit a creative installation on textile waste in the Blue Zone at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021: www.generationofwaste.com
Mairi is a graduate of the School of System Change and holds an MSc in Social Innovation and a BA (Hons) in Fashion Management.
Beyond professional titles, they are a queer Scottish woman (she/they), a deep thinker, and a curious creative. Her enthusiasm expands into movement (partner acrobatics, ashtanga yoga, outdoor swimming), music (listening and DJing), and musing through poetry, tarot, and ongoing inquiry into identity, equity, and change.
Multiplicity shapes how Mairi moves through the world - she celebrates fluidity and the kaleidoscopic nature of being. They aim to navigate uncertainty with humility and wonder, and she believes in the power of people, relationships and stories to shift paradigms and systems.
At the School of System Change
I support the School as Communications Manager covering all things marketing and communications. Please get in touch if you have a resource or opportunity to share with our audience - we are always looking to lift up the wider field of systems change through the School.
I also work as a producer on some of our learning offerings, including the Cultivating Climate Transformation 2025 course.
"I weave communications, community, and change. Rooted in care, I move with curiosity and courage."
