03/03/2026
SPEAKER AT HEAR ME ROAR!
Claudia Turbet-Delof is a Hackney councillor, migrant, feminist, community organiser, and a proud Bolivian-Londoner. Her politics are rooted in lived experience. After arriving in London, she worked as a cleaner in homes and offices across the city, witnessing firsthand the precarity and exploitation of the expanding gig economy. Having faced poverty and periods of destitution herself, she is driven by a lifelong commitment to dignity, workers’ rights and collective power.
In Hackney Council, Claudia secured and passed the first Mental Health as a Human Right motion in the country, setting a national precedent for framing mental health as a matter of justice and public policy. She also built cross-party support to pass the motion to End the Hostile Environment, strengthening Hackney’s commitment to migrant justice and Borough of Sanctuary principles.
Claudia supported bringing forward a key deputation on school exclusions, publicly exposing the lifelong mental health impact of exclusion on young people and its disproportionate impact on Global Majority and SEND children. She continues to advocate for emotionally healthy, fully inclusive schools.
She initiated the first local authority scrutiny of Palantir’s Federated Data Platform, raising serious concerns about patient data use and conflicts with Hackney’s Borough of Sanctuary commitments. This groundbreaking scrutiny helped trigger wider public debate and led to the creation of the Hackney Coalition Against Palantir, of which Claudia is an active member. She is also a Public Governor of Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where she champions patient rights, transparency and accountability.
Claudia has scrutinised public health commissioning, challenged high drop-out therapy models such as NHS Talking Therapies contracts, and campaigned against the privatisation of the NHS. As part of Mental Health Action, she advocates for diversifying therapeutic models within the NHS and strengthening community-led care.
Nationally, she has been active in the Free School Meals and Right to Food campaigns, securing Spanish translations of campaign materials so migrant families could access support, and has been invited as keynote speaker outside Downing Street in defence of children’s right to food.
As a young woman, Claudia aspired to study medicine and specialise in neurology, but restrictive gender expectations limited that path. That experience deepened her commitment to equality in access to education and public health.
She works closely with Tenants & Residents Associations (TRAs) to improve housing accountability, access to tenant levy funds, and secure fair access to community halls.
In 2024, Claudia was suspended from the Labour Party after supporting a motion demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The suspension took place during International Women’s Week. Following this, and amid what she viewed as an irreversible anti-migrant sentiment within the party, she chose to leave Labour. She went on to co-found the grassroots, internationalist Hackney Independent Socialist Collective, working in collaboration with the Green Party ahead of the May 2026 elections to build a principled, community-led alternative.
Roles:
- Welfare, Housing and Debt Advisor, Therapist, Board Director, Vice-Chair (volunteer) Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS), 2010-2017
- Executive Member, Treasurer, United Voices of the World (UVW), 2017 to 2021
- Mental Health Champion, London Borough of Hackney, 2022-2024
- Political Commission, Wiphalas Across the World, current
- Executive Chair, London Road Safety Council, current
- Member, Hackney Coalition Against Palantir, current
- Member, Mental Health Action Group, current
- Public Governor, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, current
Hear Me Roar 2026: festival for International Women's Day
