With almost 20 years experience in public relations in the private, public and charity sectors, Howard has worked at the cutting edge of nonviolent civil disobedience climate and environmental activism in the UK since 2006.

He was a key member of the media team with the Camp for Climate Action (better known as Climate Camp) and co-founded Transition Heathrow, the flagship project of which Grow Heathrow has physically prevented the building of a third runway at Heathrow Airport for over a decade.

As Coordinator of the Press Team at Extinction Rebellion for the first 9 months from its launch, Coordinator of Media and Messaging for Heathrow Pause, the audacious attempt to shut down Heathrow Airport with toy drones, and also of HS2 Rebellion, which he co-founded to fight the most environmentally destructive infrastructure project in UK history, he has led large teams of UK based and international communications professionals, secured extensive front-page headline national and international broadcast, print and online news coverage and is on first name terms with every climate and environment editor and correspondent at all of the UK's major mainstream media outlets.