26/02/2026
|| MEET THE AUSTRALIAN YOUTH REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UN || 🌎🌍🌏
The UQILS will be hosting a coffee consultation session with the 2026 Australian Youth Representative to the UN. This is a casual chat to allow an opportunity for young people to have their voices heard 💚💙.
WHEN: Tuesday, March 3 2026, 12pm
WHERE: Merlo Coffee Shop, UQ St Lucia Campus
COST: Free!
Find out more about our Representative below!
Janice (she/her) is Australia’s 2026 Youth Representative to the United Nations. She is a youth and community engagement practitioner, organiser, and racial and gender justice advocate from New South Wales. Drawing on her lived experience as a young woman from South West Sydney, she brings a deep understanding of how place, culture, and access shape opportunity, and is committed to centring the voices of those most often excluded from power and policy conversations.
Janice currently works as a Youth & Community Engagement Officer at Multicultural NSW, where she facilitates and manages the Multicultural Youth Network (MYN), leading youth engagement initiatives and supporting culturally responsive programs that strengthen leadership and participation among young people from multicultural communities. Prior to this, she spent three years as a Youth Program Coordinator at the Western Sydney Migrant Resource Centre, supporting newly arrived refugee and migrant young people through community-led and culturally responsive programs.
Janice brings governance experience as an Advisory Board Member for Multicultural NSW and Management Committee Member at CuriousWorks, a Western Sydney-based arts organisation. An experienced public speaker and media contributor, Janice has appeared on ABC and holds a Bachelor of Politics and International Relations from the University of Sydney.
As Youth Representative, she is committed to ensuring young people are treated as leaders and collaborators, and that youth perspectives meaningfully shape domestic policy and Australia’s global engagement.
