Rachael Jacobs

Biography

Rachael Jacobs is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts Education at Western Sydney University and is a former secondary arts teacher (Dance, Drama and Music). Her research focuses on anti-racism education, language acquisition through the arts, creative justice and arts education. Rachael has facilitated arts research projects in community settings all over Australia and predominantly works with migrant and refugee communities. She has contributed as a consulting researcher to the OECD in the development of the Sustainable Development Goals and to UNESCO’s International Commission on Futures of Learning. She is also a community activist, aerial artist, South Asian choreographer and runs her own intercultural dance company.  Rachael was a founding member of Teachers for Refugees. She is on the boards of climate action organisation, Sweltering Cities, and youth theatre company, PYT Fairfield. She is a teaching-artist and consultant to numerous arts organisations including Collective Impact Arts, the Sydney Opera House. Rachael is currently an academic advisor to National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and academic-in-residence at Think_DO Tank Foundation.