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Kaia Thauberger

University of Calgary
Regina Beach, Saskatchewan
2022 Scace Loran Scholar
Lumsden High School

Kaia is studying health and society with a concentration in economics at the University of Calgary, where she serves as vice-president of events for a club focused on connecting and enriching the experience of students in her program, and as a student medical responder with the UCalgary Student Medical Response Team. Off campus, she is a volunteer coordinator and assistant instructor at Prairie Sky Equine Assisted Therapy, which provides horseback riding lessons to individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities. Kaia is also the chairperson of the KidSport chapter she founded in her hometown, which helps families facing financial barriers to access organized sport. She spent one summer working with a provincial KidSport chapter in British Columbia, and another working with Doctors of the World in England.