Maia Ihemeje
Founding director of Yung Prodigy, a youth-led Australian nonprofit supporting young people affected by parental incarceration; former policy officer in the Race Discrimination Team at the Australian Human Rights Commission.
1
APPEARANCES
1
PODCASTS
Sep 8, 2026
Maia IhemejeGUEST
So I guess Young Prodigy's vision is to liberate young people impacted by the carceral system.
Maia IhemejeGUEST
And we do that through equipping them with different resources, community supports and opportunities to get there.
Maia IhemejeGUEST
The idea really came from the fact that parental incarceration in this country is such an invisible issue.
Maia IhemejeGUEST
It's not really on the political agenda or any policies or anything like this, which I guess was kind of the whole idea around establishing Young Prodigy in the first place.
Maia IhemejeGUEST
And so from that, we identified a bunch of gaps, mainly around there's no research.
Mehal KrayemHOST
Students worked with Maya to develop research and planning resources that would help the organisation grow.