In 2017, Annabelle Traves, an award-winning concert violinist who was a Women’s College resident at the time (and who, since graduating, has toured with André Rieu, Bruce Springsteen and Michael Bublé, amongst others), came up with the idea of a fundraising concert, held at Women’s, in support of The Katrina Dawson Foundation. Since then, eight concerts have been held, raising over $30,000. We were incredibly honoured to have Women’s College alumnae, Annabelle and Emily Edmon

We are so grateful to The Drinks Association (and its Embrace Difference Council) for selecting us again as their charity partner for their annual International Women’s Day fundraising lunch. Thank you to Georgia Lennon and everyone else at The Drinks Association for your continued generosity – raising a record $22,000 this year! Phoebe Britten (2024-25 KDF Scholar) talked at the lunch about what the KDF Scholarship meant to her: “I didn’t grow up surrounded by barristers,

We are delighted to introduce you to our 2026 Scholars – Violet FitzSimons and Abbie Correll – our first scholars to benefit from the increased scholarship amount that we introduced late last year. This takes our total number of KDF scholarships given out to 29. L to R: Abbie Correll and Violet FitzSimons Abbie and Violet join Zoe Weddin, Hayley Fraser and Lily Heraghty at Women’s College this year and are wonderful additions to the KDF Scholar ‘family’. Read more about Abb

Last December, Forbes Australia announced their latest "30 under 30" list of high achievers, and Phoebe Britten was on it! The article focused on the non-profit that Phoebe founded, Inspire Tomorrow Education. “You can’t be what you can’t see,” she says. That idea would become the foundation for Inspire Tomorrow Education: a free tutoring and scholarship-writing support platform for disadvantaged students.” Read the full article at https://www.forbes.com.au/news/30-under-30/t

We are delighted to share that the NSW Bar Association has selected Sosan Rahimi as the recipient of the Katrina Dawson Award for September 2025. Sosan studied a combined Bachelor of Law (Honours) and Bachelor of Science (Psychology) at the University of New South Wales, and was admitted to practice in December 2019. Highlights of Sosan’s career (so far) include stints with state government agencies (the Department of Finance, the Crown Solicitor’s Office and the Department

We were delighted to continue our partnership with the Aurora Education Foundation, helping support five wonderful women go on the 2026 International Study Tour to the United States: Angel Hayward (a proud Noongar woman based in Perth); Cianna Walker (a proud Gumbaynggirr and Walbunja/Yuin woman from Sydney); Luca Codi Sawyer (a proud Wiradjuri woman from Sydney); Ronnella Onyeajum (a proud Kaanju, Barrunggam and Kuku Yalangi woman from Brisbane); and Shahnaz Rind (a proud Ba