Biography [for external use]

Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis (she/her) is a global social development and youth advocate, social researcher, and thought leader on inequality. She drives advocacy, research, and creative projects on youth and child rights, social development, health, intersectionality, and justice.

A 2022 Australian Youth Representative to the UN, she now serves as Oceania Representative on the WFUNA Youth Advisory Council (2023-2026) and manages evidence-based advocacy with the Future Healthy Countdown 2030. She is Chairperson of the African Australian Youth Suicide Prevention Group and African Women Australia and advises organisations including UNESCO, the Centre for Adolescent Health, and Yung Prodigy.

In 2021, Angelica received the NSW Premier’s Youth Medal and was named one of the UN’s 23 Young People Leading Resilient Recovery.

"LET young  people    build  these tables      not for you     but     with you     because       these        are  our      tables too."

~ Quote from Angelica’s Official Statement to the Third Committee at the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly