Dr Kirsten Wehner is the James O Fairfax Senior Fellow in Culture and Environment at the National Museum of Australia. Working across collections, exhibitions, visual arts, conversations and writing, Kirsten’s practice centres on collaborating with communities to build flourishing cultural-ecological futures. Kirsten was formerly Director, PhotoAccess, the ACT and region’s centre for contemporary photography and media arts, and Head Curator, People and the Environment, at the National Museum. Her most recent major publication is Living with the Anthropocene: Love, loss and hope in the face of environmental crisis (New South, 2020, co-edited with Cameron Muir and Jenny Newell). Kirsten’s current program focuses on the cultural dimensions of regenerating Australia’s most endangered ecosystems.