Session 9B: Youth-Led Accountability in a Changing Climate and Digital World
Tracks
Track 2
| Friday, April 24, 2026 |
| 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM |
Speaker
Professor Philippa Collin
Co-director Young & Resilient
Western Sydney University
Youth-driven accountability: Transforming health systems for all children and young people
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Professor Collin is an interdisciplinary social scientist researching youth experience, digital technologies, mental health and wellbeing, and social change. She has an extensive track record in child, youth-centred and intergenerational research, program design, evaluation and advocacy using realistic evaluation, program logic, participatory and co-design approaches.
Ms Georgia Monaghan
Co-founder
Ecomind
Climate Science, Not Climate Silence - Our Open Letter on Psychologically Safe Climate Education in Australia
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Georgia is the Co-Founder of ECOMIND, Australia’s youth climate mental health and wellbeing charity. A climate lawyer and consultant with six years of strategy experience at Pollination, Georgia is a Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellow, has a Masters in Climate from Columbia University and is on the Board of AYCC.
Ms Georgia Monaghan
Co-founder
Ecomind
Co-designing and launching a youth climate mental health certificate
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Georgia is the Co-Founder of ECOMIND, Australia’s youth climate mental health and wellbeing charity. A climate lawyer and consultant with six years of strategy experience at Pollination, Georgia is a Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellow, has a Masters in Climate from Columbia University and is on the Board of AYCC.