Angelica Ojinnaka is a youth affairs advocate, researcher, and speaker. She has extensive experience in advocacy and providing policy/research advice on areas including social inequality experienced by children and young people, mental health, youth civic and political participation, gender equity, and multicultural affairs on both national and international forums. She previously served as the 2022 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations and represented as the Australian Youth Delegate at the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. 

 

She is a founding member of the African Australian Youth Suicide Prevention Group and a Youth Leader for Plan International Australia. In 2021, she received the NSW Premier’s Youth Medal in recognition of her gender and youth wellbeing advocacy, and was named as one of the United Nation's 23 Young People Leading Resilient Recovery in the Decade of Action.