Tommy Ross-Williams (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist & intimacy coordinator working across stage, screen and page. They are a recent recipient of the Art Council's DYCP grant to focus on embodied practice and consent in art-making processes. They are a four-time recipient of an ACPG and their work sits at the intersection of art and activism. They were recently selected as a screenwriter onto the BBC & BFI incubator programme "Hot House" to develop climate-based Film and TV & BBC Writersroom “London Voices”  programme for 2024. 

For six years they were the Creative Director of The Advocacy Academy, a social justice organisation for young people from South London, focusing on the intersection of art and activism and the practice of co-creation.

As an artist, recent projects include We The People, a documentary commissioned by the Museum of London about intergenerational activism in Brixton (Film Futures Award at LWFF 2020). They co-directed, co-created, co-wrote the five star production of My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar with Latinx activists Valentina Andrade and Elizabeth Alvarado, which had a three week run in Brixton House in June 2023. 

Their socially engaged practice spans various areas including LGBTQ+ rights, consent, youth participation, climate justice, allyship and care. They write and talk about these issues in various settings, including as a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, a frequent panellist at WOW Festival and most recently on BBC Radio4’s The Moral Maze.

They are currently a lead trainer on Movement Builders, NEON's flagship programme for building more robust social movements, most recently supporting a convening of the youth organising movement in the UK in summer 2023. Tommy has almost 15 years of experience in social justice facilitation.