Rataj is an Eritrean 16 year old and moved to Australia 10 years ago as a refugee. 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 also is 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. Rataj is based in Coffs Harbour.
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