Our Board
Nominations Now Open to Join Our Board!
YNOT is currently looking for a new northern based member to join our Board of Governance.
If you’re passionate about improving outcomes for young Tasmanians and want to be a part of ensuring good Governance for the State’s Youth Peak Body, we encourage you to apply for one of our organisational member vacancies.
Make an application or find out more here.
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Linda Karlsson
Vice Chair
Linda Karlsson is the Vice Chair of YNOT, joining the board in 2020.
Linda is a passionate advocate for human rights and access to equal opportunities and believes young people are a key group to lead this work.
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Jodie Saville
Organisational Member
Jodie is the Youth and Community Officer at Circular Head Council. Her work focuses on assisting and empowering young people, ensuring they have every opportunity despite living in an isolated rural community
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Charlotte Jones
Individual Member
Charlotte Jones is a social scientist researching the emotional significance of climate change for young people across Australia, and how this impact their intergenerational relationships and experiences of their futures.
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Carmel Hobbs
Organisational Member
Carmel is a social scientist and educator/trainer specialising in teen domestic violence and abuse and trauma responsive practice. She works at the University of Tasmania in the trauma-informed practice lab in the School of Education.
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Sally Thompson
Organisational Member
Sally Thompson is the Manager of Youth and Settlement Services at the Migrant Resource Centre Tasmania (MRC Tas). Sally is passionate about youth participation, and diversity and inclusion, having worked with young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds in Tasmania since 2014.
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Joseph Akot
Individual Member
Joseph Akot is a Young Leader who has presented and represented the views of young people on the State and Federal Level, with his work primarily being within Youth Health Services.
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Matt Hill
Organisational Member
Matt has worked in the Tasmanian Youth Sector for 20-years, including 15-years in the Local Government industry in various youth and community engagement and participation roles.
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Catherine Robinson
Individual Member
Catherine is currently Associate Professor in Housing and Communities, School of Social Sciences, UTAS where she is also UTAS Centre Director for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. She has a long-held commitment to qualitative research and advocacy in the areas of homelessness, complex trauma and social care.