I served as MC across ReachOut Australia's Youth Advocates and Ambassadors Workshop at ReachOut's Sydney office. The workshop brought together ReachOut's cohort of young advocates and ambassadors to connect, reflect, and explore what is next for their work. Holding a room requires something different from a keynote. It is about reading energy, creating safety, moving things forward without forcing them, and making sure everyone in the room feels like they belong there.

I was invited to serve as an independent grant assessor for the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation's 2026 grant round for young people. The Foundation's mission in the youth sector is to support programs that promote wellbeing, resilience, and the opportunity for young people to thrive. My role was to assess applications and provide a shortlist of recommendations to the board for final funding approval.

I developed and facilitated a workshop for the young people of Wattle Range to identify the local changes they wanted to see in their community. At the end of the process, I supported them to present their ideas directly to the Mayor and local councillors to push for real action.

During National Child Protection Week, I joined SA Australian of the Year Professor Leah Bromfield and Senior of the Year Charlie Jackson OAM on stage to present a Call for Change in protecting children. SAYF members delivered speeches highlighting stories of resilience, justice, and the urgent need for community-led reform in how we think about child safety. Bringing young people onto that stage to speak in their own words about what reform needs to look like was incredibly

I was invited to speak at the 2025 Volunteering SA/NT Conference about engaging young people in volunteering and what it means to build and lead a fully youth-led, volunteer-powered organisation at the time. I shared the realities of youth-led community work, what makes young people want to show up, and how organisations can genuinely embed rather than just recruit young volunteers. Photo credit: Volunteering SA/NT

Alongside two SAYF members, I spent a day across the Parndana and Kingscote campuses speaking to over 400 young people in Years 7 to 12 about youth advocacy, resilience, and leadership. The visit marked the beginning of something significant for Kangaroo Island, building the foundations for what is now the established Kangaroo Island Youth Movement.

I was invited to speak at the South Australian Business Chamber's International Women's Day Business Luncheon, sharing the stage with keynote speaker Professor Leah Bromfield, 2025 SA Australian of the Year. I spoke about the SA Youth Forum's work in spaces of gender equality including coercive control, period justice, and gender equity in schools, from the perspective of a young woman who built an advocacy organisation from the ground up. It was a privilege to speak to leade

Since 2023, I have served as a grant panel assessor for SA Power Networks, reviewing community grant applications and contributing to decisions about where funding goes. It is another form of the same practice: making sure young people's perspectives are present in the decisions that shape communities, including the financial ones.

Since January 2023, I have served as a Youth Advisor on the SA Power Networks Vulnerable Consumers Advisory Group. I collaborate with senior members and board representatives to advocate for the inclusion of young people's voices in energy policy and decision-making. Young people's perspectives embedded into infrastructure decisions that affect everyone.

I delivered the guest opening address at the Adelaide Festival's inaugural Climate Crisis and the Arts event. I spoke about the importance of the intersection between arts, culture, voice, and climate, and what it means to have a young person's perspective. It felt important to be there. Photo credit: Adelaide Festival

At 17, I was on a panel at WOMAD's Planet Talks: Meet the Changemakers session, speaking alongside five other young advocates about what a renewed relationship with the planet could look like. I talked about the world through a hopeful and sustainable lens, imagining what 2030 could hold if we made the right choices now. It was my first time speaking on a stage like that. Photo credit: WOMADelaide

From January 2022 to December 2023, I served as Youth Representative on the SA Power Networks Community Advisory Board, advocating for young and vulnerable consumers during the Regulatory Reset for 2025 to 2030. I engaged with diverse stakeholders and worked to ensure that the voices of young people were present in decisions that would shape energy access and equity for years to come.

Alongside Craig Wilkins and Chris Daniels, I was on a panel at the State Theatre Company's Tangent Talks series exploring environmental sustainability. This was my first ever speaking panel, and I was around 17 years old. I talked about what a greener, more just future could look like and why young people had to be part of designing it. Every speaker has a first stage. This was mine. Photo credit: State Theatre Company