Fiona studies anthropology at the University of Ottawa, where she worked as the director of opportunities for the Sociology and Anthropology Student’s Association helping run events and create resources for students in her faculty. During her public policy summer as a junior analyst at the Office of Public Service Accessibility, she collated best practices from accessibility experts from across Canada to create a guide to accessible events for the federal public service.

Aishwarya is a third-year neuroscience student at McGill University. She is passionate about health justice and researched the intersections of gender and sex and chronic pain over the summer. She is currently an equity commissioner at the Student’s Society of McGill University, where she is working to make policy and community changes. Aishwarya volunteers at the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, dances bharatanatyam, and works with a non-profit focused on abortion access, equity, and decarceration.

While studying management and political science (BComm) at McGill University, Kai has volunteered as a Japanese teacher, completed four mandates as a consultant and project manager at Canada’s largest student-run consulting firm, JED Consulting, and led community impact initiatives as the director of JED For the Community. He spent his community development summer working at the Clean Foundation in Nova Scotia, fostering policy engagement and undertaking policy development for clean energy initiatives in the province. Kai is involved with a Montreal-based charity, 60 Million Girls, working to deliver one of the world’s first climate education games to a network of 700,000+ students globally with limited access to high-quality educational content.

As a campus ambassador, cross-country runner, and environmental studies/community-engaged learning student, Anna has lots of connections and takes a wide range of courses with unique experiential learning. Anna’s passion for the outdoors and community never falters. Whether hanging out in her hammock on campus, building fires with Scouts, or coaching kids on the ski trail, she will have a smile on her face regardless of the weather.

Sarah is currently completing a B.Sc. majoring in psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus. She has worked with the Aging Research Centre in designing research surveys and an elder abuse awareness campaign. Sarah works at the library on campus, where she assists students with using academic resources, and she also served as the Grenfell Campus student union chairperson in the 2024 winter semester. Sarah completed her Loran Summer at Champney’s West Heritage Group in a museum and an aquarium.

Wadii is a licensed parachutist who enjoys playing badminton, creating investment theses as an analyst at Queen’s Capital, and spreading financial literacy through Queen’s University Finance Network as a market research analyst. Wadii is also a loan committee member of the Fair Finance Fund, where he evaluates loan applications of social-impact-focused businesses.

Ravneet is deeply involved in initiatives reflecting her commitment to community and wellness. As a resident don and campus ambassador for undergraduate admissions at Queen’s, she actively represents and supports her university. Additionally, she contributes to the Provincial Youth Council for Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario, advocating for integrated youth care. For his community development summer, Ravneet worked as an assistant program coordinator at the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

Hilus is a member of the Waterloo Engineering Society and the Waterloo Engineering Endowment Fund – a program that provides funding for research and projects. He is an active member of UWAFT, a student design team that works with alternatively fueled vehicles. Hilus spent a winter semester working as a Build Specialist at a Canadian software company, OpenText, where he worked on infrastructure security and app development. Hilus is studying Computer Engineering.

Mahum is currently pursuing her BEng in Biomedical Engineering at McMaster University. She is a community resident advisor and technical team member for a medical engineering club. She completed her public policy summer at Toronto General Hospital as a clinical research assistant developing learning modules on organ transplantation for clinical staff and patients. She was selected by ICANN (the organization responsible for the namespace database of the Internet) as a NextGen to learn about Internet governance in Washington, D.C.

While completing the Freshman Program of McGill University’s Bachelor of Arts, Atlas volunteers as a piano teacher for elementary school students from low-income families. Additionally, they are a mentor for a program dedicated to forging meaningful friendships between university student mentors and young children with disabilities. Atlas is also a member of Game Dev McGill and participated in several hackathons during the year to develop prototypes of social good programs.