The Future We Want: Humanitarian Changemakers

Join the UNAA Young Professionals Queensland for our third event in the ‘The Future We Want’ series: Humanitarian Changemakers’. On Wednesday August 19th, we are hosting a collaborative ‘World Cafe’ style online event to bring you knowledge and understanding of what it means to work in the humanitarian sector. The focus of the event will be linking you with current leaders in humanitarian organisations across health, climate change, refugee support and community/sustainable development. 

 The Future We Want: Humanitarian Changemakers aims to link you with community leaders, engage you in their work and foster a greater understanding of what we can all be doing right now to make our community a better place. We will delve into new approaches to socio-cultural and environmental governance and justice, climate action, and community development.  We’re having this discussion because young people will be the most affected by this current period of uncertainty and anxiety. Most importantly though, young people are the future leaders we need to be changemakers in their communities, and across the world. 

Our lineup of fantastic speakers include: 

• Ashleigh Streeter (Host):   Vice-Curator of Canberra Global Shapers, Policy Officer at the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet and Award winning Gender justice activist.  Ashleigh dedicates her professional and volunteer time to gender justice and equity through international policy and community engagement.

• Erika Isabel-Yague: Rotary Peace Fellow currently completely a Masters in Peace & Conflict Studies at The University of Queensland (UQ). Erika is also a consultant for UNICEF on gender empowerment and young people’s participation in humanitarian and peacebuilding.  
  
  
• Ellen Derbyshire:  Final year Masters of Business and Sustainability student at UQ. Ellen has over four years' research experience working in International Sustainable Development, Sustainability Science, Policy, and Practice.  
  
  
• Saad Alkassab: A first year medical student at The University of Melbourne who hopes to one day have his own medical humanitarian project. Saad has delivered over 350 public talks, including a TEDx Canberra session that shares his story of fleeing Syria and finding a new home with courage, poignancy and humour. 
  
  
• Luke Barbagallo: A community development and social enterprise professional, Luke works as Partnerships & Programs Manager at Pollinate Group, a social enterprise and last-mile distributor that empowers women entrepreneurs across India and Nepal. Luke is currently completing a Master of Disaster, Design and Development at RMIT.

Our guest facilitators will be introduced via social media soon!

Join us for an online panel (with Q&A) and networking session, with a few incredible young professionals/change-makers who are transforming our systems and futures across the country!
Spots are limited as this online event provides networking opportunities - registration essential. 

This event is free of charge, however if you are able we would greatly appreciate your donation to UNAA Young Professionals QLD towards the costs of running this and future events!

As always, we at the UNAA respectfully acknowledge that this online event will be hosted by individuals on the land of the Turrbal and Yuggera peoples, as well as watched by others from across the many Nations. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and fully commit to working together now and in the future.

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EVENT TECHNICALITIES: 

This event is occurring online via the Zoom video-teleconferencing software. You will be emailed Zoom dial-in details upon successful registration. You do not need a Zoom account to listen in, however we recommend you to create a free Zoom account so that you can automatically access the meeting hyperlink/avoid any minor tech, wifi or device issues. We ask attendees to dial-in at least 5 minutes before 6PM AEST. The Host will admit you in through the online waiting room. 

If you have any questions for our panelists, there will be a dedicated time in the event to ask them. If you wish to reach out to any of the panelists after the event, the panelists will indicate what their best method of communication is. Please understand if our panelists wish to respect their privacy and emphasize their boundaries with communication.