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Preeti Maharaj

(She/Her)
PhD candidate, Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Victoria University

Preeti is researching how teachers navigate their identities, institutional identities and students’ identities when engaging with anti-racist policies and practices in schools. This is borne out of the intersections of her lived experiences as a migrant Woman of Colour, a teacher and school leader of two decades.

She works as an educational, school policy and curriculum consultant.

Her short story 'A Tangle of Tenses' will be published in 'Growing Up Indian in Australia' in July 2024.

Preeti is also a playwright, an actor and producer. Her ten minute, one woman play 'Ganna Ki Kethi' (Sugarcane Farming) set in a remote part of Fiji, was awarded 'Best Production' by the judges in the West of Melbourne Performing Arts Festival 2024.

Photo credit: Jess D'Cruze

Experience

  • –present
    PhD candidate, Teachers' identities and anti-racism, Victoria University