International Women’s Day 2026 Lunch (RCA Meeting #5088)

 International Women’s Day 2026 Lunch

Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls.

This International Women’s Day lunch invites us to reflect, connect and act to support women and girls, both locally and around the world. 

Rotary Adelaide invites you to our International Women’s Day 2026 Lunch, a powerful gathering focused on turning lived experience, education and advocacy into action for women and girls, locally and globally.

This year’s event features two inspiring headline speakers whose work spans generations, continents and classrooms; united by a shared belief that rights, justice and action begin with access, education and opportunity.

Headline Speaker: Kate Taylor, Founding Director, EveryMum

Kate Taylor is the Founding Director of EveryMum, an Australian grassroots organisation working to end preventable maternal death and injury. Her life-threatening experience with postpartum haemorrhage became the catalyst for a global mission grounded in Rights. Justice. Action.

In this powerful and deeply personal address, Kate shares how one Australian mother’s brush with mortality led her to Cambodia; from volunteering on a floating clinic along the Mekong River to founding EveryMum.

Kate reflects on what it means to transform lived experience into meaningful action, and why access to safe, high-quality maternity care is a fundamental human right for all women, everywhere. Her work has helped train thousands of midwives and doctors across low-resourced communities, improving maternal health outcomes for millions.

Headline Speaker: Isabella Courtney, Emerging Leader and Education Advocate

Knowledge is Power: Equipping Young South Australian Girls with the Tools to Resist, Adapt, and Lead

In a world shaped by rapid change and growing inequality, education remains one of the most powerful tools we can offer young girls. Drawing on her experience as the founder of a small, non-profit education initiative supporting underprivileged children in South Australia, alongside her studies in politics and gender studies, Isabella Courtney explores why equitable access to education for girls is more urgent than ever.

Isabella’s session will examine how education provides not only knowledge, but confidence, critical thinking and agency; equipping young South Australian girls to navigate an increasingly complex and politically divided world. Her talk challenges us to consider how investing in girls’ education, and feminist education for all students, creates fairer, more resilient futures for everyone.

Isabella is a passionate emerging leader and advocate for gender equity. Her achievements include being named the winner of the League of Nations Prize at the University of Adelaide in 2025 and receiving the Emerging Leader award at the South Australian Inspiring Women’s Awards in 2024.