Global leader and advocate for youth affairs and wellbeing
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ANGELICA OJINNAKA-PSILLAKISAngelica is a global youth affairs leader, advocate, researcher, and speaker. She served as the 2022 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations.
You can find her talking, facilitating or shaping change on youth agency and access, social inequalities experienced by children and young people, mental health, youth civic and political participation, gender equity, human rights education, and anti-racism on national and global forums.
Oceania Representative, World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) Youth Advisory Council
2023 - 2026
Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, UN Youth Australia and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
2022
2021 - Present
NSW Premier's Youth Medal, NSW Multicultural Community Medals
Youth Advocate, Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health
2021 - 2024
2021
Founding Member, African Australian Youth Suicide Prevention Committee
2020 - 2021
Youth Activist, Plan International Australia
Experienced keynote, emcee, panellist, and advisor having engaged with organisations. Some include
“We invited Angelica to speak on a panel around the importance of Deconstructing Leadership, particularly for young, intersectional women and gender-diverse people. She spoke incredibly about her lived experience and expertise, and shared invaluable insights around her own challenges that have come in regards to leadership. Myself, as well as all of the participants, gained so much from interacting with Angelica and appreciate her honesty. We cannot recommend Angelica highly enough and stating that she is an incredible leader, speaker and advocate is an understatement.”
~ Raise Our Voice Australia
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