Emma Webb

Emma is a community organiser, curator, and activist, and has joined the Working Women’s Centre SA after several decades of working in the arts and cultural sector.

She started her working life in community-based women’s health and feminist peer education, and her varying paid and voluntary roles across 30+ years have intersected with culture, community development, participatory pedagogy, and community organising, most often with a focus on women, artists, First Nations and workers’ rights. Before joining WWC SA in late 2024, she was Artistic Director/CEO of the national arts organisation Vitalstatistix for fourteen years, and custodian of the heritage-listed trade union landmark, the Waterside Workers Hall.

Emma is Co-Chair and a long-term member of the Executive Committee of the Arts Industry Council of South Australia; co-founder of policy and practice thinktank, Reset Arts and Culture Collective; Industry Adjunct at UniSA Creative; and has been a member of the South Australian Government’s Artists at Work Taskforce.

Emma was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2020 and was inducted into the South Australian Women’s Honour Roll in 2017.

She is active in local climate, democracy, heritage, and justice politics in her local community, the proud union city of Port Adelaide, Yartapuulti. She is passionate about the public and democratic purposes of the not-for-profit sector and the union movement, and she is dedicated to contributing to progressive social change. Emma is also a Proud Cat Lady, and guardian to four rescue moggies.