Career
Early Reay did undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney, taking anthropology after hearing after hearing A. P. Elkin debate the philosopher John Anderson. Reay went on to study under Elkin, who directed her to do fieldwork among fringe-dwelling Aborigines in north-western NSW. She did six month stints of fieldwork at Walgett, Bourke, Moree, Coonabarabran and other communities.
