Nominations for the 2026 Outstanding Alumna Awards will open in April 2026.
2025 Outstanding Alumna Award Recipient
Margie Reid
Class of 1996
We are thrilled to announce Margie Reid, Class of 1996 , as our Outstanding Alumna for 2025.
Margie Reid is CEO and Partner at Thinkerbell, Australia’s most creative agency that delivers a model of brand, creative, media to deliver “Measured Magic” to their clients.
With over 25 years in advertising, running Melbourne’s largest media agency, OMD, as well as working at UM and Carat, Margie joined forces with her business partners eight years ago to start their own agency- Thinkerbell. The agency has gone on to create the fastest-growing start-up business with a team of over 180 people across Australia and New Zealand, winning numerous awards.
Margie has been on the Boards for Support the Girls – a NFP providing disadvantaged women with dignity through the personal distribution of essential items, as well as L’Arche, who aim to create environments where individuals with and without intellectual disabilities can live, work, and form meaningful relationships. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for Inclusively Made, which promotes the development of production of ads and content with people with disability – in front or behind the camera.
Congratulations to Margie, a true Gen Girl, on being our Outstanding Alumna for 2025.
Previous recipients
The recipients in previous years have received the award for their contributions as detailed below:
- 1995: Dr Suzanne Crowe (1967) Medical Research
- 1996: Dr Patricia Desmond (1974) Medicine
- 1997: Miss Catherine Santamaria (1962) Public Service and Public Policy
- 1998: Dr Jane Connor (Posthumous Award) (1986) Medicine
- 1999: Ms Gabrielle Trainor (1973) Governance and Communications
- 2000: Ms Margaret Easterbrook (1981) Journalism
- 2001: Sr Barbara Brown-Graham fcJ (1963) Education and the FCJ Society
- 2002: Ms Jacinta Heffey (1965) Law
- 2003: Dr Brenda Niall AO (1948) Literature
- 2004: Professor Marie Emmitt (1963) Education
- 2005: Miss Julie Chamberlin (1952) Education
- 2006: Ms Angela Cannon (1982) Law
- 2007: Ms Melinda Crean (1986) Music and the Arts
- 2008: Mrs Kerry Stone (1965) Social Action
- 2009: Ms Sally Isaac (Posthumous Award) (1990) Local Government
- 2010: Dr Anita Clarke (1982) Medicine
- 2011: Dr Judith Paphazy (1958) Psychology
- 2012: Mrs Fiona Scanlan (1978) Fashion Design
- 2013: Dr Bernadette Tobin (1963) Bioethics
- 2014: Sr Maryrose Dennehy fcJ (1949) Education and the FCJ Society
- 2014: Chloe McCardel (2002) Marathon Swimming and charity work
- 2015: Janet DeNeefe (1976) Contribution to the Indonesian Community and Tourism
- 2016: Jane Kennedy (1982) Media, Film and Television
- 2017: Dr Sarah McNab (1995) Medicine
- 2018: Julia Zaetta (1969) Media
- 2019: Rebecca Daniher (2008) FightMND
- 2020: Mary Hiscock (1955) Law
- 2021: Libby Murphy (1987) Public Service
- 2022: Dr Philomene Joshua Tenni (1948)
- 2023: Prof Felicity Baker (1988)
- 2024. Dr Eleanor Flynn (1965)
- 2025: Margie Reid (1996) CEO of Thinkerbell, Advertising
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