Claire Reynolds is Director of Labour Women's Network, having worked for LWN since 2018.

She trains and supports women to enter public life and lead in their communities, workplaces and local parties, through the Jo Cox Women in Leadership Scheme, the LWN Political School, the Chris Herries Development Programme, and more. She leads campaigns on women’s representation, power, agency and safety in political spaces, from shortening Labour’s parliamentary selection process, to fighting to end sexual harassment in politics. She manages LWN’s brilliant team of staff, and sits as an ex-officio member of LWN’s Executive Committee, as well as serving as Returning Officer over LWN’s internal elections. She represents LWN on Labour’s National Executive Committee’s Equalities Committee, and on the steering group of Centenary Action.

Claire is also Chair of the Socialist Societies Executive, which represents Labour’s 21 non-trade union affiliates, drawing together experts and enthusiasts to ensure everyone can find their “home” within the Labour Party.

Claire was a previously MEP Liaison Officer in 10 Downing Street under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. She also spent five years advising employers from McDonalds to the Ministry of Defence on gender diversity in the workplace at King Charles’s charity, Business in the Community, where she also authored publications such as Changing Gear - Quickening the Pace of Women's Progression. She has also worked for three Members of Parliament, and interned with a fourth. Claire has also been a European Parliamentary candidate; a councillor in Tameside, Greater Manchester; a member of DEFRA’s Equality and Diversity Scrutiny Committee; a Chair of governors; and National Secretary of Labour Students.

Outside of politics, Claire enjoys spending time with her four kids and two dogs, singing badly in a community choir, and indulging her West Wing addiction. Based in both Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, and Waterloo, London, she spends a considerable amount of time braving the M6 and the West Coast Mainline. She is a member of the Hub Council of Oasis Waterloo, which runs two schools, a food bank, a debt advice centre, early years activities, youth services, a progressive church and a community fridge. Originally from Baslow in Derbyshire, Claire began her working life in Bakewell Pudding Shop. Now a proud honorary Mancunian, and sports a Manchester worker bee tattoo in memory of the victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack. She has a first class degree in English Literature from Lancaster University, where she was Chair of the Labour Club, and once completed a parachute jump to raise £5k for Labour Students. She tweets at @mrs_creynolds and writes for LabourList here. Listen to her interview with The Leader podcast on misogyny in Parliament here.