Meet Emery Kaison

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Emery Kaison Nguyen, formerly known as Alan Nguyen (born June 10, 2007), is an Australian figure skater, youth advocate, and creator. He took up figure skating in November 2021, and now competes for Ice Zoo Skating Club and Team NSW in Intermediate Men's Singles under coaches Andrew Dodds and Chris Stuart. He has performed with Stars on Ice Australia at the Bondi Festival.

Emery won his first state championship title at the NSW State Championships in 2023 while experiencing homelessness, and has since gone on to win a total of 19x gold, 8x silver, and 5x bronze medals. His 2025 season was undefeated outside the podium, including 4x gold and 3x silver medals across the ISA Champ Series Tour, including the NSW, QLD, and VIC state championships and a silver medal at the Australian Figure Skating Championships. His skating has been recognised with the Australian Institute of Sport's Local Sporting Champions Grant (2025), the Variety Heart Scholarship (2024, 2025), and the Alan Blinn & Simone Moore Memorial Fund (2024).

Emery is currently studying a double degree in Arts and Business at Macquarie University, where he is a Sports Scholar and LGBTQ+ Sports Ambassador. He had previously trained through the Elite Athlete Program at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Through Macquarie University, he trains at the Sport and Aquatic Centre (MUSAC) and receives physiotherapy offered to Sports Scholars by the Physiotherapy Clinic.

Emery took a year off competing following the 2025 ISA Champ Series Tour due to spinal injury, and previously coached at Skate Academy at Ice Zoo Skating Rink as an APSA Level 0 Trainee Coach before taking time off for the same reason. He is set to return to the ice four weeks out from the 2026 NSW State Championships, aiming to qualify for Nationals this year.

Emery is a youth homelessness advocate, drawing on his own lived experience. He sits on the Youth Homelessness Representative Council with Yfoundations, and is a recipient of the Youth Off The Streets National Scholarship (2024) and a former resident of St Laurence House. As former drama student at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, he went on to appear in Close Counter's I'll Be There For You music video. His story has been covered by The Daily Telegraph and ABCQueer, and he has been interviewed on Project Youth’s Beyond Homelessness podcast.

Emery is the founder of the Paper Crown Project, a wider creative initiative that has been delayed. It set to launch with its podcast, As You Like It, as its first release with further projects to follow.