Grace Vegesana

Grace Vegesana (she/they) is a 23 year old woman-of-colour fighting for climate, economic & racial justice across the continent. She is pioneering an intersectional portfolio as the Climate & Racial Justice Director for the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) by founding the People of Colour Climate Network, and was previously the first Western Sydney Organiser. She sits on the Boards of the Foundation for Young Australians, the Australian Conservation Foundation and Sweltering Cities. Grace is an alum of the Democracy in Colour People Of Colour Placement Program, and the Community Organising Fellowship. She has previously worked with Future Super, Australia's first fossil fuel free superfund, to instigate the Not Business as Usual Alliance where 3000+ Australian businesses striked for the September 20 2019 Climate Strike.

Grace completed a double degree of Environmental & Climate Science and Law, and loves bringing her background as a geophysicist and (soon to be!) lawyer to reimagining disaster adaptation. She is passionate about working in the intersection of climate and racial justice to build the power of young people in culturally, linguistically, and religiously diverse and climate-affected communities in Australia to forge generation-wide solutions to intersecting crises at a systemic level.