Leah Avene is a Tuvaluan mother, musician, broadcaster and educator whose work focuses on personal, relational and collective decolonising. Storytelling and narrative healing inform Leah’s writing, public speaking and therapy work, as a powerful way of reclaiming identity, healing trauma and resisting the dominant culture. Leah’s work aims to scrutinize and dismantle colonised culture whilst celebrating the inter-generational resilience, resistance and strength of marginalised communities. Leah performs music as Philemon, heads Co Cultural Communication, a collaborative cultural consultancy, and is working on the first season of Mixed Medicine – a podcast exploring mental health for people with mixed marginalised identities.
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Leah Avene
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