Jess Weller
Auckland, New Zealand
Jess Weller considers herself a change maker and a passionate social entrepreneur. With a background in design and experience in the fashion industry, Jess decided her calling was in using her skills to educate young people which lead her to teaching. Diagnosed with breast cancer at age 27, whilst on her overseas experience in London in 2013; Jess has created a career that utilises her lived experience with an life threatening illness to design and develop educational programs to deliver life saving messages through motivational speaking presentations and support healthy conversations that could save lives regarding the awareness of cancer. Jess is currently doing this work through the education charity she is the founder of - The WELLer Network. Jess is a driven, creative, honest and hardworking individual who is able to find creative solutions to solve complex problems. As a health advocate Jess aims to make a difference through awareness, media, fundraising, education and social action.my skills, knowledge & experience
Health
Health, Education and Design are where most of my skills lie. I am incredibly passionate about health and about the process of learning how to best look after yourself because it is something I didn't know how to do until I was diagnosed with a life threatening illness at 27. Being involved in creative arts from a young age lead me to completing a design degree in Fashion which then lead to teaching in order to share the skills I had learnt at undergraduate level. Teaching gave me the skills to be able to navigate through my a cancer diagnosis and now I spend my time between the classroom and educating young people about resilience, health awareness and how encouraging young people to live their best life.