Adelaide student and social entrepreneur Isobel Marshall has been named Young Australian of the Year for 2021.
The 22-year-old was presented with the award at a ceremony in Canberra on Monday evening.
Ms Marshall is the co-founder of period product company TABOO, which gives all its profits to a charity helping women in Sierra Leone and Uganda gain education.
TABOO partners with the St Vincent de Paul Society's women's crisis centre to provide free pads and tampons to women who need emergency accommodation in South Australia.
It also works with the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council across SA, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Ms Marshall, a medicine and surgery student, began TABOO with friend Eloise Hall in 2019 after crowdfunding $56,000.
