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Jen Rae

Artist, Researcher, Reworlder

Country: Australia

Cohort: CCL Australia 2023

“​Creative climate leadership encompasses intergenerational thinking/knowing/doing, the ability to take a bird’s eye view to the complexities and uncertainties of the climate context and the ability to engage in deep relational processes with humility and creativity. It embraces experimentation and risk taking, holding firmly climate emergency urgency in one hand and relational accountability in the other. Collaboration, inclusivity and justice are at the heart of this work which means ensuring that perspectives and knowledges at the thresholds of being lost, overlooked and/or ignored in dominant discourses are represented.”
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Dr Jen Rae (she/they) is an award-winning artist-researcher of Canadian Scottish-Métis descent based in Djaara Country/Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. Jen’s practice-led expertise is situated at the intersections of art, speculative futures and climate emergency disaster adaptation + resilience. Her work is predominantly articulated through transdisciplinary collaborative methodologies and multi-platform projects, community alliances and public pedagogies. Jen is Co-founder and Creative Research Lead at the Centre for Reworlding, a member of the Australian Task Force for Creative Recovery and a 2023 Creative Australia Fellow.

To hear more from Jen, she features in the CCL podcast, episode 6.