Rhonda Ayliffe is a creative practitioner and multi-generational resident from Cobargo, far south coast, NSW. Her hometown and region was severely impacted by the 2019-2020 Black Summer fires. Rhonda became involved in multiple local recovery efforts in the aftermath. She is Vice-Chairperson of Cobargo Bushfire Resilience Centre – the primary recovery project for the destroyed main street of the Cobargo village. Ms Ayliffe is the architect of the Badja Forest Rd Fire Oral History project, undertaken in partnership with the National Library of Australia, she is a Research Associate at the National Museum of Australia, and is a co-creator of the emerging DisasterWISE platform created in conjunction with Monash University’s Fire to Flourish program.

Rhonda is also a PhD Candidate at the University of Canberra.