Spencer McKinley is an author and environmentalist, represented by Palamedes, the UK's leading book PR agency. She has been featured in respected publications including Reader's Digest UK, Female First, The Scotsman and The Star. She supports various environmental platforms, including Cultural Survival, Conservation International, WeForest, Amnesty International and Oceana. In 2014, before the Covid Crisis, the author served as a CPT Delegate monitoring a biochemical contaminate discovered on First Nation Lands, in Ontario Canada. She is one of the rare outsiders to have witnessed first-hand the devastation at Grassy Narrows Reserve. The ensuing catastrophe caused a political firestorm, resulting in the longest-running Blockade in Canadian history, and became known as the country's worst environmental disaster.