Rafael is an undergraduate law student at Université de Montréal. He has worked as a research assistant for professors in Indigenous law, constitutional law, and public international law. Last summer, he worked with the NGO Lawyers Without Borders, where he conducted research in international human rights law. Rafael is involved with Université de Montréal’s Legal Clinic, offering free legal services to the population. Within the Faculty of Law, he is a mentor and tutor for students in specific subjects. Rafael plays the saxophone and has a keen interest in music of all kinds, literature, film, and running.

Ava is pursuing her BSc in Physics at the University of Waterloo and is a mentor for girls interested in pursuing a future in STEM. She is involved with Map the System, an international composition that explores the links between early-age literacy and incarceration rates. Ava volunteers at several homeless shelters in the Waterloo region and participated in her campus’s opioid harm reduction program, where she helped provide stigma-free education on harm reduction techniques.

Sofie is currently pursuing a BSc in the Anatomy and Cell Biology program at McGill University. She is active in student advocacy, having served as the Associate Science Senator to the McGill Senate – the school’s second-highest governing body. Sofie has led efforts in reforming the sexual violence outreach services in her student society and has partaken in many University policy drafts and reforms. She currently serves as the Science representative to the McGill Student Society and represents the voices and interests of her peers to the student legislative council.

Émilia is a computer engineering student with a minor in biomedical engineering at McGill University. As a member of the “Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering” club, she organized a conference introducing 200 young women from high school and CÉGEP to engineering. Émilia is an assistant professor for a robotics course, in which she helps teams plan their projects. Last summer, as part of her internship, she organized a five-day training and competition event for 200 French-speaking youth from all across Canada.

Pursuing a B.Sc. in Astrophysics, Zaneb volunteers at the university’s Rothney Astrophysical Observatory and public library to nurture children’s interest in STEM. Alongside their honours studies in the Arts and Science Honours (ASHA) program, they joined the student association for the program as a junior executive member. Additionally, Zaneb volunteered as a peer-support facilitator with the domestic abuse-prevention organization Sagesse and is currently interning with Women’s Shelters Canada, researching technology-facilitated gender-based violence across Canada.

Jack is an emergency medical responder with McMaster University’s Emergency First Response Team, where he trains for and responds to medical emergencies on the university campus. He is both the volunteer director of internal relations and co-director of events for the Ontario Ethics Bowl, which delivers ethics-focused, debate-like competitions to high school students. Jack is currently finishing his second year of arts and science at McMaster University. He completed his enterprise summer working as an agricultural scout at Kroeker Farms in Winkler, MB.