background — Rebellious Care

Background.

Rebellious Care emerged from a collaboration between Dr Zoë Goodman and Dr Marianna Bacci Tamburlini.

Zoë Goodman ^(she/her)

is an anthropologist and facilitator with 15 years of experience at top universities, non-profit organizations and the UN.

Zoë works with the Centre for (Medical) Education and the Visual Embodied Methodologies Network at King’s College London.

Zoë has been doing research in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa for a decade. She is currently the Principal Investigator on a grant funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, ‘Theatre-making in careless times: Arts-based approaches to care along the Kenyan coast’.

Co-produced participatory theatre projects include: Free Si Bure: What’s the price of care? and Lisemwalo Lipo: A play about vaccine rumours.

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Zoë’s previous roles include working on the Wellcome-Trust Funded project What’s at stake in the fake? Indian pharmaceuticals, African markets and Global Health, co-convening the MA Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS, University of London and developing global guidelines for more equitable agricultural investment at UNCTAD.

Zoë has supported ‘Powering Up’: Co-producing solutions to health inequality with young people, and is working with Dr Alice Tilche to develop an arts-based research agenda for speaking back to power.

Zoë is a certified practitioner of:

And has been trained in:

The Resilience Toolkit

Embodied Social Justice

The Politics of Trauma

Theatre of the Oppressed

Zoë’s facilitation practice draws on politicized somatics, theatre of the oppressed and other social justice-oriented participatory methodologies, such as body mapping and collective cartography.

Nelson Githuku ^(he/him)

has been practicing theatre for 17 years.

He has extensive experience in workshop facilitation, theatre-making and the art of making activities that are people oriented and emotionally centred. Nelson has worked with schools as a drama teacher, with nonprofits as a facilitator, with NGOs as a recruiter and with various theatre companies – as an actor, scriptwriter and theatre director.