Storyteller, Anthropologist
Gauri Raje
Gauri Raje holds a PhD in Anthropology, diploma in film editing and trained in storytelling with tribal communities in India and UK. Since 2012, she has trained and worked with Theatre of Witness in Northern Ireland and England, a performance approach that focuses on biographical storytelling by people who have no experience with theatre.
Since 2007, she has been working with refugees and immigrant communities in the UK on various funded projects relating to urban land and storytelling as a way of understanding the process of settlement among immigrant groups in cities.
Currently, she works with a community radio station in Glasgow on documenting the stories of early Asian migrants to Scotland since 1940s. It was part of an exhibition at the Scottish Parliament in June 2018.