Maija Sibilla Blaubergs was a German-born Latvian educational psychologist, feminist scholar, and lawyer, raised in Canada. Blaubergs taught in the educational psychology department at the University of Georgia beginning in 1972, and was on the advisory committee to develop the school's first women's studies program. In 1976, when it launched, she was the program's first coordinator. In 1978, Blaubergs presented a report on nonsexist language at the World Congress of Sociology, held in Uppsala, Sweden. She was active in the early years of the National Women's Studies Association. From 1985 to 1992, she was a lawyer based in Washington, D.C., specializing in transportation law. Dr. Blaubergs passed away in November, 2010.