Stella is the president of her school’s Students Against Drinking and Driving (SADD), a club she reinstated in 2023. She will be attending a SADD conference in New Zealand to explore Indigenous initiatives and bring new insights to the North. A dedicated Inuit community leader, Stella organizes cancer fundraisers and regularly volunteers locally.

Audrey has been actively following her passion for dancing for more than 10 years. For the past two years, she has been co-president of her school’s social justice club, which focuses on giving back to the local community, and co-chair of her school’s Relay For Life event, which fundraises for cancer research. Audrey also loves being outdoors.

Kira trains and competes as a member of McMaster University’s Nordic cross-country ski team. She is an emergency medical responder with the McMaster Emergency First Response Team, where she responds to physical and mental health emergencies on campus. Kira applies her lived experience to her role as a student researcher in the field of pediatric rheumatology, working to improve the quality of life for young people with rheumatic diseases. She is also passionate about climate activism and worked on a project determining the repercussions of wildfire evacuations in her home territory.