Emily Unity shares the importance of understanding how different cultural backgrounds can impact an individuals mental health. In this conversation Emily shares how they battled with mental health as a teenager, how their parents struggled to understand mental health and how we as a society need to change the narrative around mental health to different cultural backgrounds.
Emily Unity shares the importance of understanding how different cultural backgrounds can impact an individuals mental health. In this conversation Emily shares how they battled with mental health as a teenager, how their parents struggled to understand mental health and how we as a society need to change the narrative around mental health to different cultural backgrounds.
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Emily Unity is a mental health lived experience professional, software developer, and multidisciplinary creative. They are also a queer, culturally diverse, and neurodiverse young person.
They have a diverse portfolio advocating for lived experience, focusing on intersectional and marginalised communities. Through peer support, Emily uses their lived experience to connect with and advocate for other diverse people. They consistently are seeking new opportunities to co-design a future where diverse lived experiences are valued and respected.
They were recently the recipient of the 2021 Mental Health Advocate of the Year Award, 2021 Youth of the Year Award, and the 2020 Young Woman or Non-Binary Person of the Year Award.
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