Bio
Professional Expertise
Emily Unity is an award-winning mental health advocate, software engineer, and creative designer. They currently hold roles as a Board Director, consultant, project manager, facilitator, and ambassador.
Lived and Living Expertise
Emily is informed by their intersectional lived and living experiences. This includes mental ill-health, disability, LGBTQIA+, multiculturalism, neurodivergence, homelessness, family violence, and more.
Awards
Affiliations
videos
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Emily worked with Beyond Blue to create a video of their lived and living experiences of youth mental health challenges and recovery, including suicide and self-harm. Emily hopes that by sharing their story, they can help others feel less alone.
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Emily managed a project commissioned by Meta to capture young people's hopes, priorities, reservations, and recommendations for designing, building, and regulating a safe, kind, and inclusive digital future - “Our Metaverse.”
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Emily partnered with Lifeline’s suicide prevention campaign to show how suicide can affect anyone. The film captures Emily’s conversation about suicide with a stranger of the opposite age, culture, gender, race, profession, and sexuality.
Writing
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Emily founded Multicultural Minds, a storytelling platform dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. They are co-writing a book with over 300 multicultural people from over 150 different cultures.
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Emily’s generation is often stereotyped to be wasting money, but there is little understanding of the financial costs of young people’s mental health. Emily wrote an article sharing their mental health and bank account from the past year.
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Australia is home to some of the most unique animals. However, many are in danger of disappearing forever. Emily created Ozigami, a book to encourage fun and easy ways to protect Australian endangered animals.
Visual
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Emily created the Children’s Mental Health Gallery, an art exhibition series dedicated to amplifying mental health artworks. The inaugural gallery was hosted online in 2022, and in 2023 an in-person gallery was hosted at the Royal Children’s Hospital.
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Emily hosted an art workshop, where they invited fellow youth mental health advocates to write messages of advice to their past and future selves. The advocates wished to share their lived expertise, so Emily created a wearable artwork collection titled “Note to Self.”
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Emily is a multidisciplinary creative specialising in brand identities, user experience, and accessible communication. They have worked with over 150+ clients, from start-up businesses to ASX and NYSE listed organisations.
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