Linda Sainsbury is the Director, Berriwerri Consultancy Service, and a Darug woman of the Burramattagal clan, with family connections to Ngungawal Country. Linda is a social worker who has Perinatal Non-Directive Counselling Training (APS – Australian Psychological Society), trained in CBT, MiCBT, DBT, ACT, COS (Circle of Security), PAT (Parents as Teachers – attachment, growth and development from antenatal to 5 years old), Trauma, Intergenerational trauma, Mental Health First Aid Facilitator/ Aboriginal Facilitator Trainer, Perinatal Family Facilitator/ Aboriginal Facilitator Trainer. Linda is completing a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Areas of speciality are trauma, intergenerational trauma, mental health, drug health, antenatal and postnatal, child protection, sexual assault and family domestic violence

Dr Cristyn Davies is a Senior Research Fellow in the Specialty of Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School. Cristyn has expertise in vaccination for young people, gender, sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, and knowledge translation and implementation science.

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.

Ava Haine is a young leader who grew up in remote Central Queensland, advocating for youth health equity and community-led change. She has championed local health initiatives and amplified rural youth voices both nationally and internationally. Her work focuses on intergenerational leadership, strengthening health systems, and ensuring regional, rural, and remote communities are seen, heard, and supported.