Angelina is a sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender equity activist. She serves as Lead Campaigner at Sexual Health Advocates for Reproductive Equity (SHARE) and Co-Chair of the International SRHR Consortium Youth Working Group. In these roles, she leads youth-driven advocacy for universal access to contraception, strengthens youth participation in Australia’s international SRHR policy engagement, and champions intersectional feminist, co-designed approaches to policy and systems change. As a young queer woman and daughter of Lao and Cambodian refugees, her work is grounded in a deep commitment to amplifying diverse voices and ensuring young people with lived experience shape the policies that affect them.
Previously, Angelina served as the 2021 Queensland Youth Health Minister, where she led the development of a Youth Bill aimed at ending period poverty. In 2022, she pitched SRHR policy recommendations to the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and the U.S. Ambassador to Australia. Currently, she serves on the Women Deliver 2026 Youth Planning Committee and the Social, Political, and Cultural Track Committee for the 2026 Australasian Sexual and Reproductive Health Conference.
Angelina holds governance roles with the Australian Women’s Health Alliance and Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT. She also works as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Epidemiology for Policy and Practice at the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, focusing on tobacco control. She is particularly passionate about challenging industries and anti-rights groups that exploit or target marginalised communities and undermine human rights.
Angelina has completed a Bachelor of Health Science and is currently studying a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery at the Australian National University.
