Through becoming a part of the Gender-Based Violence Youth Advisory Group, Jessica hopes to become an active advocate for young people. Jessica is looking forward to collaborating with other young voices who can effectively communicate to a diverse range of backgrounds.
While growing up as a young woman, being filtered through 5 different secondary Educations, both co-ed and all-girls, Jessica was exposed to extremely diverse socio-economic conditions across the different schools. As a result, she became conscious of the different beliefs and behaviours reflected in a large proportion of young people. She was also able to gather a perspective on the different motives for schools across Queensland on how they approach the subject of violence against women and children.
Jessica hopes to become a voice in helping all individuals understand that violence comes in many different forms and is something that someone is taught, not born with.
