Perhaps best known for his acting roles in productions like Game of Thrones, Sam (he/they) is a 26 year old Councillor on Rother District Council (Lab) where he represents his home village of Sidley, the area of highest social-economic deprivation in Rother. Sam is the Council’s spokesperson for Young Persons and Child Poverty, Vice-Chair of Licensing and General Purposes, Deputy Leader of the Rother Labour Group (part of the Rother Alliance coalition administration) and has led politically on Rother’s recently adopted Anti-Poverty Strategy. Sam sites their experience as a working class young carer as a key motivator for their politics.