Rachael Jacobs

 
 

Campaign Correspondent

Why Change? Podcast Co-host

Rachael Jacobs (she/her) serves as a Campaign Correspondent for the Campaign for a Creative Generation. In this role, she acts as a co-host on the Why Change? podcast.

Rachael is a lecturer in Creative Arts Education at Western Sydney University, a community artist, writer and activist. She is a former secondary teacher (Dance, Drama and Music) and primary Arts specialist. Rachael has facilitated arts projects in community settings all over Australia, mostly in refugee communities, in prisons and in women’s refuges.

In 2016 contributed to the arts education component of the OECD report on the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 and in 2021 she is assisted in the analysis for UNESCO’s International Commission on Futures of Learning.

As a community activist she uses the arts to make statements about public education, climate justice and building anti-racist futures. She is a freelance writer, aerial artist, South Asian dancer and choreographer. She was a founding member of the community activism group, Teachers for Refugees and runs her own intercultural dance company.

Location: Sydney, Australia


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