Brooklyn Sulaeman

Brooklyn recently joined BMWHI as a volunteer with the Blackheath eco-monitoring group in 2020. With a background in communication, community engagement and events for organisations such as Qantas Airways, the Total Environment Centre and the University of Sydney – she enjoys engaging with a diverse group of people and connecting them to issues in a different way. She is passionate about our intimate relationship with the natural world, and links to health and wellbeing. Currently, Brooklyn works part-time at School of Electrical & Information Engineering at University of Sydney, while she is completing a Certificate III in Conservation and Land Management. In her spare time, Brooklyn is also a reiki practitioner, Bushcare volunteer, and loves to go hiking, swimming in waterholes and nature photography.

 Brooklyn got involved in the Recovery project as she felt the importance of expressing our shared experience of the 2019/2020 bushfires and impacts of climate change. Witnessing the devastation and process of recovery brings up so many emotions that are often difficult to talk about. She finds the acknowledgement alone and sharing stories quite healing and opens a wider dialogue for deep reflection of place, and our role as stewards of place.

In future, Brooklyn would love to continue to raise awareness of pressing local issues currently facing the World Heritage area through environmental education and dynamic community engagement projects. She emphasises that there is an urgent need to gather the likes of scientists, artists, industry professionals, schools and the general public – to participate in the larger story that is unfolding before us.