Zainab Kadhim

Zainab Kadhim joined Campbelltown Arts Centre as Creative Producer in September 2026. She has over a decade of experience working in the community arts and cultural development sector as a project manager, workshop facilitator, event coordinator and artist mentor. She has worked for organisations and institutions such as Outloud, Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation & Western Sydney University and is an independent artist pursuing her own creative practice as an actor, poet, rapper and singer-songwriter under the name Desert Empress. Kadhim holds a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Environmental Forensics as well as a Master of Science degree majoring in Environmental Management from the University of Technology Sydney, 2013.