Sarah Lynn Rees is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of North-East Tasmania. Based in Birrarung-ga (Melbourne), she is an architectural practitioner, academic and writer. She is also prominent advocate and advisor with a firm commitment to Indigenising the built environment.
Sarah is an associate principal at Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, a lecturer at Monash University, and co-chair of the Australian Institute for Architects First Nations Advisory Committee. She is also program consultant and curator of the BLAKitecture series at MPavilion, member of the Living Cities Advisory Group, co-creator of Deadly Djurumin, director of Parlour: gender, equity, architecture, member of the Victorian Design Review panel for the OVGA, National Advisory Panel member for the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia and technical Advisor to the City of Melbourne Design Excellence Advisory Committee, Member for the Design Excellency Committee for MAPCO and a director on the board of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
