We’re honoured to welcome Khayshie Tilak Ramesh, a respected voice in diversity, equity, and inclusion, as this year’s Melbourne Airport Car Park Sleepout MC.

Khayshie is a fierce advocate for intersectional gender equality, working across housing, health, mental health, youth, multicultural inclusion, and the rights and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ and neurodivergent communities.

To Khayshie, achieving diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging requires more than just ticking boxes – it demands a commitment to change. A lawyer by trade (but a storyteller and educator at heart), she has built her career on driving cultural transformation and challenging industry & community to rethink diversity and inclusion.

Her leadership has been recognised nationally and globally, including her selection to represent Australia’s gender equality priorities at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York.

She was appointed the inaugural Youth Mayor of the City of Greater Bendigo, and has been recognised as Young Citizen of the Year, Law Student of the Year, a Premier’s Volunteer Leadership Award winner, and recipient of the Victorian Multicultural Award for Excellence: Service to the Victorian Community.

Khayshie proudly served two terms as the Multicultural Youth Commissioner of Victoria and has contributed to numerous boards and committees.

We’re grateful to have Khayshie join our Car Park Sleepout, sharing her experience and passion at a night dedicated to community, compassion and action.