A/Prof Magenta Simmons (she/her) is a Principal Research Fellow and Head of Youth Involvement Research at Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health at The University of Melbourne. The Youth Involvement in Research team conducts research into shared decision making, peer support, and the involvement of young people with lived and living experience in research as collaborators and leaders. Magenta’s work is dedicated to redressing the historical exclusion of young people from making decisions about their own mental health care, the mental health workforce and active partners or leaders in research.