Tasmanian Aboriginal Writer's Fellowship

Jennifer Evans

Dr Jen Evans is a Queer Dharug woman living on, and with connections to, palawa country, lutruwita (Tasmania), Australia. Jen is a Blaq social and cultural geographer whose research and advocacy blends technology, country and queerness to create safe spaces for Indigenous methodological research. Dr Evans is passionate about community participation and empowerment in decision-making processes, a resilience borne from a lifetime of lived experiences, including being an architect to picking fruit to survive. She now works as an Aboriginal Research Fellow at the College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, to support palawa students to reach their goals through her research. She has won multiple community awards for her business and social impact.