About

Hi, I’m Rae (she/her). 

 

I work alongside organisations, researchers and community-rooted initiatives to explore creative, strategic and participatory approaches to change. My work lives at the meeting point of research, systems thinking, storytelling and ecological design - grounded in a commitment to nuance, complexity and care.

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Over the past 12+ years, I’ve moved through the nonprofit and community sectors in many forms - writing bids, curating comms, managing & evaluating projects, building strategy - while quietly tending a creative and research-based practice rooted in questions of belonging, more-than-human worlds and the embodied textures of place.

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I’m currently completing a practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, focused on multispecies dis/belonging, marginalisation and place-based praxis (more here). I’ve published on community and ecological pedagogy, radical forms of help and creative ways of knowing and noticing. I work across creative facilitation, post-qualitative research, narrative strategy and resource-making - with a particular love for zines, walking practices and other strange/beautiful methods that don’t fit into boxes.

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Underneath all of it is a belief that meaningful change doesn’t come from extraction or optimisation - it comes from slow listening, collaborative mess, and the weaving of insight that feels real.

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I work best with those building towards more liveable, just and entangled futures - whether through art, ecology, social care and policy, education, health or broader collective imagining.

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