Professor Jack Beetson is a Ngemba Aboriginal man from Western New South Wales (NSW) who has been involved in Indigenous education in Australia and internationally for over 30 years. He is Executive Director of Literacy for Life Foundation, an Aboriginal organisation focussed on lifting adult literacy levels as a path to achieving improvements in employment, training, health and children’s education. He is also Chair of Just Reinvest NSW, supporting community-led solutions to Aboriginal over imprisonment. Beetson left school at an early age but returned to education and became one of the first Indigenous Australians to complete a university degree in adult education. He has represented Indigenous peoples at the United Nations (UN) and received an honour from the UN for his work. In 2019 he became the first Indigenous Australian inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.