Your candidates in Homerton
Zoe Holman
Zoe has spent her working life as a journalist and researcher advocating for people to be heard. With a PhD on British intervention in the Arab world, she has published widely on international political issues, worked as a translator of Arabic to English and campaigned on issues of borders, Palestine and human rights locally and abroad. She grew up in Melbourne, but Hackney has been her home for over ten years.
She says, “I’m excited about practising a new, hopeful form of politics in Hackney and making sure our council listens. As a councillor for Homerton, I will be an advocate for greater housing equity, health and well-being, for sustainability and ethical investment.”
Working together for Homerton Ward
What we are building here is historic for Hackney, and rare elsewhere too. Two groups working together with a shared local message, choosing collaboration over confrontation, because Hackney needs action, not political point scoring. For two years, our Green Councillors have worked closely with three ex-Labour councillors who formed the Hackney Independent Socialist Collective (HISC) at the Town Hall.
We are not the same party, and we won’t always agree on everything. We work together where we have common ground, and are open and honest with residents about where we differ.
For the May 2026 local elections in Homerton Ward, we are standing alongside Alana and Heather from the Hackney Independent Socialist Collective and ask for your support for us all as part of a team dedicated to real change.
Alana Heaney is standing as a Hackney Independent Socialist Collective candidate because Another Hackney is Possible. She is a people person, and a mother. She cares about the world we live in, is a good listener and gets things done. Her successful achievements include taking back control of her community centre, getting the landlord to replace 169 boilers and 3 brand new lifts, and to survey homes and remove black mould from over 50 homes. She set up her Tenants & Residents Association (TRA) to support people. She pledged to uphold Palestinian human rights and is a member of Unite the Union.
Heather Mendick was born in the Mother’s Hospital in Hackney and has lived on the Pembury Estate since 2008. She works as a freelance education researcher, teacher and administrator. She is an active local campaigner, being a founding member of Morning Lane People’s Space which is working to get our local Hackney Community voice heard in the proposals for the development of the 55 Morning Lane Tesco site. She was also one of the organisers of the Hackney Divest Camp for Palestine that occupied Hackney Town Hall Square for two months of 2024. She is active in her TRA.