Willetta Esther Riddle Gayton
Willetta Esther Riddle Gayton was the first African American professional librarian in Seattle.
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Lyn Henderson-Yates
The first Aboriginal person to be appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of an Australian university.
Maggi Phillips
Australian dance scholar and educator
Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
Aboriginal Australian painter and educator
Dr Margaret Jolly
Australian anthropologist
Dr Margaret Williams Weir
The first Aboriginal person to matriculate to an Australian university. In January 1957 the University of Queensland offered her a scholarship and she commenced an arts degree.
Joan Montgomery
Australian leader in women’s education
Joan Bielski
Bielski was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and of the NSW Women in Education group (1973-1994), a feminist organisation, whose slogan was Educate to Liberate.
Annie Westmoreland
Annie Westmoreland was a pioneer of the kindergarten movement in Melbourne and a co-founder of the Kindergarten Society, later the Free Kindergarten Union.
Beth Stubbs
Australian educator and activist