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Museum of Homelessness
22 November
10:30
Innovative Collaborations: How to unleash the creative potential of a network with CIRCE
Jess Turtle
Co-Founder and Director of Museum of Homelessness
Speaker Biography
Jess is the co-founder and director of Museum of Homelessness, an award-winning new museum led by people with experience of homelessness. Prior to founding MoH in 2015 Jess worked across culture and heritage in the UK and Europe for more than a decade. Jess experienced homelessness as a child and young adult. This life experience has driven her to focus on facilitating justice and community healing through Museum of Homelessness’s survivor led work. To support this Jess has recently trained in Dr Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry and she is a certified trauma informed coach (TICC). She is a visiting tutor at Kings College London and Central St Martins and gives lectures and keynotes internationally. Jess holds an MA (distinction) in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck and has authored several publications and book chapters on trauma, culture and community. She has most recently been published by Routledge (2020) and Oxford University Press (2021).