Jenny Newell is the Manager of Climate Change Projects at the Australian Museum. She works on the cultural dimensions of climate change, focusing on communities in Australia and the Pacific, as well as contributing to international networks of museums engaging with climate change. With a background in Pacific and Environmental History, Newell has held curatorial roles at the British Museum, National Museum of Australia, and American Museum of Natural History (New York). At the Australian Museum since 2016, Newell has developed programs around climate change in Sydney, chairs the Australian Museum’s Climate Change Working Party, is a member of the ICOM Working Party for Sustainability and convenes the (independent) Museums & Climate Change Network. She co-edited Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change (Routledge) and Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss & Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis (NewSouth, forthcoming).

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