Before there was Jane Goodall, there was little Anne Innis who wanted more than anything to know everything there was to know about giraffes. Anne visited the Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo when she was four years old. It took Anne until she was in college to make her dream come true to learn all about giraffe. Anne was met with opposition all along the way. This was the 1950s — “A woman traveling the world on her own? A woman studying animals in the wild? Unheard of!” But Anne persevered and studied giraffe in South Africa. After her study, being a woman kept her from being hired as a university professor, so Anne turned to being a writer. “Eventually, Anne’s adventures caught the attention of someone who turned Anne’s story into…a movie!”

It was a long hard road but Anne Innis Dagg’s perseverance won out in the end to the world’s betterment.

Written for Annette McQueen by M.K.P.