Lyn Henderson-Yates

Lyn Henderson-Yates is an Aboriginal Australian social scientist professor and deputy-vice chancellor of the Broome campus of University of Notre Dame Australia in Western Australia. She is the first Aboriginal woman to be hired to this position in any university across Australia.

Early life Henderson-Yates was born in Derby, Western Australia, and was the eldest child in a family of eight. Many years later, in 2014, Henderson-Yates prompted a re-opening of the investigation after it emerged that convicted murderer and suspected serial killer James Ryan O'Neill was in Derby around the time of James' disappearance.

Career Henderson-Yates became a teaching assistant in the local area and continued to work her way up the education system over the next 35 years. She became the first director of the centre. However, in 2012 the campus unveiled a new classroom to help improve the literacy skills of local Aboriginal students.

In 2014, as part of her research, Henderson-Yates co-wrote a 2014 report into university accessibility to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, entitled "You Can't Be What You Can't See". She also wrote a book with Melissa Brickell and Brian McCoy about reconciliation in Australia, Take Off Your Shoes, Walk On The Ground: The Journey Towards Reconciliation in Australia.

, Henderson-Yates also is CEO of the Derby Aboriginal Health Service (DAHS), which provides healthcare support and education to the indigenous Australians of the region. Aboriginal people in the area suffer from high rates of mental illness; suicide numbers are also abnormally high. The DAHS works to resolve these issues, but it struggles with the extensive funding this requires, which the government is reluctant to provide.