Background

Jade is an experienced, subversive development practitioner who works alongside people with lived experience of structural and social disadvantage to codesign novel interventions aimed at transforming harm and building collective power. 

For the past eight years, Jade has applied intersectional feminist methodologies to design and deliver innovative social change initiatives in local and international contexts. Their work is informed by their own lived experience and grounded in a strong commitment to harm reduction and decarceration. 

Jade completed a Master of Disaster, Design and Development at RMIT and has pursued further education to specialise in transformative justice approaches to sexual and gender-based violence prevention and conflict mediation. 

Jade is the Deputy Chair at Speak Australia and a Legal Observer with Melbourne Activist Legal Support.

Qualifications

• 2021: Master of Disaster, Design and Development, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
• 2016: Bachelor of Arts Double Degree, International Aid and Development, and Politics and International Studies