Zubaidah Djohar
Founder & Vision Holder
A poet and cultural weaver, working across communities and systems.
Zubaidah Djohar is the Founder of Jalinka, a regenerative initiative rooted in her long-standing work across gender, climate, and culture.
With over two decades of experience, including in transformative peacebuilding, she moves between policy and lived realities, shaping approaches that are grounded, relational, and attentive to the realities people live through, while weaving together knowledge, stories, and lived experience.
Through Jalinka, she develops a living system that connects creation, knowledge, and value across generations, advancing new ways of building economies, sustaining culture, and restoring connection between people and the environment.
Her work begins with listening to women, to land, and to stories that are often quiet yet deeply rooted. From there, Jalinka grows as a space where women, youth, and communities create with dignity, carry knowledge forward, and shape their own futures.
In this intergenerational approach, Jalinka continues to evolve as a living practice shaped by those within it.
She is also a writer whose work carries stories of healing, solidarity, and transformation.
“For me, regeneration begins with memory — of land, of craft, of women’s resilience.”
