Patron
Kate Ellis
Kate is the CEO of Raising Literacy Australia, the lead agency behind the Words Grow Minds campaign. During her 15 years in the Federal Parliament as the Member for Adelaide, Kate was the Minister for Early Childhood and Childcare, Youth and Sport. Kate worked on the launch of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC), the introduction of the Early Years Learning Framework, the National Quality Framework and Universal Access to 15 hours preschool. Since that time, she has written a book on the experiences of women in parliament, serves as a Non-Executive Director on the boards of DrinkWise Australia and the Rarefind Foundation, and is Chair of South Australia’s Early Years Taskforce
