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With twenty years experience in communities, organisations and institutions across Australia, North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East & North Africa, I am an interdisciplinary researcher, facilitator, curator, partnerships specialist and producer driven to “engage with difference that makes a difference to what was initially thought,” (Bhambra).
I have always been driven by the possibility of difference. In fact I thrive when collaborating with different stakeholders to bring unprecedented ideas to life. A creative changemaker, I’m guided by the principles of inclusion, possibility and solidarity to “engage with difference that makes a difference to what was initially thought” (Bhambra 2007).
My work is currently focused on launching Rinfresca, a social purpose organisation that co-designs well-being, capacity building and self-advocacy programs for families with intellectual disability.
This includes developing the methodology behind the decolonial trandsciplinary practice of “self-advocacy art” in order to contribute to the neurodiversity and Disability Rights movements goals in societal change and agency building.
I am also collaborating on a new approach to social purpose funding we’re calling Crypto Social Responsibillity, that builds on the impact funding practices of participatory grantmaking and Corporate Social Responsibility to allocate Bitcoin-backed investment returns towards social-purpose initiatives.
My unique professional trajectory has taken me across five continents and multiple sectors. Starting in community arts and cultural development, I spent the first fifteen years of my career producing and curating innovative cultural programs: from capacity building with socially-excluded communities and experimental arts festivals to high profile conferences, award-winning urban placemaking, public programming and participatory heritage initiatives. Following my Masters, my interdisciplinary research then took the lead where I have collaborated with international networks on Responsible Research and Innovation and research-creation: from Critical Heritage Studies, Affect Theory, racial justice, decoloniality and neurodiversity to alter-economies, web 3.0, collective intelligence and social innovation, among others. And while I have led consortium building and winning Horizon2020 grant proposals bringing in 1million+ euro, co-edited an international journal and published articles and book chapters with leading academic publishers, my research tends chiefly towards research-creation, resulting in a co-created output.
If you’re curious about what any of this means or just curious about me, I’d love to connect so get in touch. Based in Italy, I was born and bred on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia), and have lived in seven countries, so I’m sure we’ll find something in common.
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