Dina Jezdic

Dina Jezdic is an independent curator, Toipoto Creative Mentoring Programme Director, community organiser and art writer.

Her current projects investigate what connects indigeneity, diaspora, and belonging. She recently submitted her doctoral thesis, which delves into collaborative autoethnography, decolonial curatorial practice in museums, and contemporary indigenous performance art.

She co-curated Te Whāinga: A Culture Lab on Civility in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian-Pacific American Center and is the inaugural Obama Foundation Fellow: Asia-Pacific region.