Community Leader & Mental Health Advocate

Always being an active member of his community, Joshua continues working to advocate to ensure a better life for everyone in his community with a main focus on mental health and suicide prevention.

Passionate about mental health and the well-being of others, Joshua has been an active youth mental health advocate and has worked to help not only raise awareness but also push for changes to improve the mental health of youth. This includes with a community association he started and operated between 2020 and 2024. Joshua has also drafted and provided input into numerous recommendation reports and mental health policy guidebooks that have all helped to provide insight into key issues from a youth perspective. Working to ensure that suicide within Canada and his community is reduced, Joshua continues to advocate daily for youth mental health and suicide prevention.

Joshua currently sits on the Youth Advisory Councils with the Mood Disorders Society of Canada, National Initiative for Eating Disorders, and is a Community Champion with Unsinkable/Unsinkable Youth. In addition to this, he also sits on the City of Hamilton's Youth Steering Committee (HamOnt Youth) where he works to engage and advocate for youth within the city to ensure a more open and inclusive city for all and the National Board of the Canadian South Asian Women's Chamber of Commerce (CSAWCC).

In 2025, he was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal for his significant contributions to Canada in the area of his mental health and suicide prevention work over the last 6 years.