MEET OUR CO-HOST: Rachael Jacobs

<p><strong>During this second episode of </strong><em><strong>Why Change?</strong></em><strong>, you’ll meet one of our co-hosts, Rachael Jacobs. Rachael is a university lecturer, dancer, aerialist, and political and social activist whose work is grounded in creativity and cultural consciousness.</strong></p> <p><strong>In this episode, you’ll learn:</strong></p> <ol> <li><strong>Why arts activism plays a huge role in every aspect of Rachaels life.<br> </strong></li> <li><strong>An arts-based strategy to gather community to advocate for political change for the climate crisis.<br> </strong></li> <li><strong>How constant motion keeps Rachael motivated and driven.<br> </strong></li> </ol> <p><strong>Check out some of the things mentioned during this podcast, including:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>This resource: </strong><a href="https://usdac.us/nativeland"><u><em><strong>Honoring Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgement</strong></em></u></a><em><strong> from the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture<br> </strong></em></li> <li><strong>A book recommendation, </strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_of_Small_Things"><u><em><strong>The God of Small Things</strong></em></u></a><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>by Arundhati Roy<br> </strong></li> <li><strong>The civil “disco”-bedience, a dance and protest project, </strong><a href="https://creative-generation.org/blog-1/civil-disco-bedience-its-time-to-dance-for-your-life"><u><strong>blog post</strong></u></a><strong>.<br> </strong></li> </ul> <p><strong>ABOUT RACHEL JACOBS</strong></p> <p><strong>Rachael Jacobs 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 Sustain