Deborah Hart
Chair, Creative Director
Deborah Hart is a climate and environment focussed creative producer and writer based in Narrm (Melbourne). After 16 years working in development roles with leading Australian arts and culture organisations—as increasingly neoliberal policies were forcing important public institutions to form compromising alliances with harmful industries—Deborah left her profession to devote more time to climate activism. After establishing one of Australia’s first local climate groups, LIVE (Locals Into Victoria’s Environment, 2006), Deborah co-founded CLIMARTE (2010) and ClimActs (2013) to harness the creative power of the arts and combine spectacle, humour and direct action to draw attention to the Climate Emergency, and the corruption causing it. Deborah is the author of 'Guarding Eden: Champions of Climate Action' (Allen & Unwin, 2015) which tells inspiring personal stories showing how and why highly destructive industries that built immense wealth and influence last century are now using that power recklessly to maintain 'business as usual' profiteering, and the inspiring actions ordinary citizens are taking to safeguard nature and humanity’s future.
