Multicultural EcoStory: Melbourne climate tour and storytelling

Multicultural EcoStory is a special workshop created by Multicultural Leadership Leadership to empower young people of multicultural backgrounds and international students to tell and share climate story around adaptation, resilience, sustainability and community in Melbourne. This includes understanding how extreme weather is impacting on the community and how to prepare for it.

Starting the day at William Angliss Institute, you will learn how to develop a story and present it. Then we have a tour to different sites around City of Melbourne to understand how climate change has impacted on the area and for your to reflect on how that impacts on you. We end the day at William Angliss Institute to thread together the stories.

Featuring Rataj Abdullah

Rataj is an Eritrean and moved to Australia as a refugee and finishing high school. In the past couple of years, she has organised locally and nationally on climate and racial justice campaigns. She is actively involved within the youth climate movement in Australia, primarily organising with School strike 4 climate, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition & Tomorrow Movement. She was involved in building and participating in campaigns such as the ‘Fund Our Future Not Gas’, ‘Don’t NAB Our Future’, and the ‘Climate Jobs Guarantee’ campaigns. As well as politician outreach, national strategy planning, running relevant events, mentoring, and social media and comms, she is also involved with the Youth Action Collective that developed a local initiative - All One Under the Sun. AOUTS is a youth-led anti-racism initiative that uses the arts to promote inclusion & diversity. Within this initiative she was involved in the creation of a documentary, forum theatre & and has written poetry for advertisements.

The Multicultural Leadership Initiative (MLI) build leaders of multicultural backgrounds to become a climate champion.