MissingSchool was featured in a magazine from Canberra Weekly. To view the original magazine click here.
Megan Gilmour
Chair and co-founder of MissingSchool
Megan Gilmour is a social innovation entreprencur whose career includes roles in government, the private sector and community organisations. Megan has worked on complex social and economic development operations in over 24 countries, including in health and education. She is chair and co-lounder ol MissingSchool, an Australian advocacy group lor keeping seriously sick kids connected to their schools.
She co-authored an Australian-first report on that subject which received a Prime Minister’s statement of support in 2015. As a 2016 Churchill Fellow, Megan studied models in six countries for connecting seriously sick kids to their education. Her work is passionately driven by her experience as a mother to a young son who survived a life threating illness. Megan was also honoured for her work by being named one of the final four 2019 ACT Australian of the Year nominees.
