Dr Anne Martin

Director

Dr Anne Martin AM is a Yuin Aboriginal woman of the NSW South Coast who was born and raised in La Perouse, Sydney. Throughout Anne’s life, she has always held close to her heart and mind the advancement of Indigenous rights and Indigenous people more broadly.  Anne was Co-Chair of the National NAIDOC committee from 2006 until 2018.

In 2012, she made the move to Canberra to take up her current position at the Australian National University (ANU) as Director of the Tjabal Centre. She has supported and mentored hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. She continues this vital work to date and in 2017 in Ontario, Canada was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the World Indigenous Nations University in recognition of her contributions to a broad Indigenous education agenda with a particular emphasis on student success.

In the 2019 Australia Day Honour Awards Anne was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia and was in the same year awarded the ACT Senior Woman of the year.