Ella leads her school’s mental health club, serves as mental health chair on student council, and represents her school on the regional student advisory committee. In her community, Ella organizes recreational activities at a retirement home, oversees a positivity program she established for local seniors, and visits long-term care patients. She also volunteers with Girl Guides and serves as a junior leader and member of Terranaut Club, which offers STEM programming for Girls+.

Olivia has volunteered at the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal and as a mentor to youth in foster care. Passionate about theology, she has audited a Christian caregiving course and volunteers as an assistant children’s minister. Previously, she co-founded her high school’s Truth and Reconciliation committee, initiated an LGTBQ2S+ support group, and managed a local municipal election. In her free time, she loves to sew, thrift, linocut, and spend time with her family.

Sadie produced and directed a concert in order to raise funds and awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. She has also co-coordinated a virtual fundraising concert supporting provincial COVID-19 vaccination efforts. A performer and active arts-community member, Sadie has used her piano, dance, and vocal experience to coordinate her school musical, and volunteers as a dance instructor and choreographer. A member of her school concert band and yearbook committee, Sadie also works part time at Winners.

Neila is pursuing a bachelor of pharmacology at McGill University. She serves as vice-president of the Algerian Students’ Association at McGill, where she helps organize events to foster connection and cultural exchange among North African students and allies. A published poet and member of the McGill poetry collective, she continues to explore literature and performance as tools for self-expression and social dialogue. Neila remains involved in youth mental health advocacy through the New Brunswick Youth Advisory Committee for Mental Health. She is also the creator of SalleZen, a wellness space initiative on campus supporting students facing mental health challenges.

A software engineering student at McGill, Gracie works with a student-led club promoting opportunities for women in engineering as the vice-president of SymPOWEsium, a large annual conference uplifting women in engineering through speakers, workshops, networking, and a research competition. She is also president of the McGill chapter and a national student representative of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, working to rebuild the community and increase the representation of Indigenous students in STEM. She previously completed a co-op at Autodesk as a quality assurance intern, where she learned test automation. Gracie is also a member of McGill’s Concrete Canoe design team and Hack4Impact McGill, where she is programming a logistics app for a local non-profit.

As a law student at McGill, Cathy takes on leadership roles, serving on the executive team for the Environmental Law Association and the board of an organization guiding schools toward socio-ecological transitions. She is the membership president of a youth wing of a political party, contributes to her electoral district association, and acts as head of the G7 youth delegation. She completed her Loran public policy summer in the office of Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and her non-profit summer in Shanghai at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce of Canada. In her spare time, Cathy enjoys dancing and playing violin and is now learning to play the erhu.

Atlas is pursuing a B.Sc. in cognitive science at McGill University. Committed to the integration of arts and sciences in all they do, they serve as musical director for on-campus a cappella ensemble Effusion and volunteer as a piano teacher for elementary school students from low-income families, while also embracing their more technologically inclined side with former work as a software developer with Agora Board Games. Atlas spent their first Loran summer as a public policy advisor and AI impact researcher at Imagine Canada, and their second in San Diego formatting a toolkit of resources for intentional game facilitation in educational spaces. Atlas volunteers on the board of TBG Canada, a non-profit dedicated to the use of tabletop games for social impact and therapeutic treatment.

Aishwarya is pursuing a B.Sc. in neuroscience at McGill University with a minor in gender, sexuality, feminist, and social justice studies. She is passionate about health justice and is involved in public health research. Through her Loran summers, she explored topics such as the intersections of gender and chronic pain, as well as reproductive healthcare access for those experiencing incarceration. Aishwarya is also a Bharatanatyam dancer and is the founder of a student-led collective working to build community through dance.

Kai is enrolled in the BA program at McGill University, majoring in political science with minor concentrations in economics and management. Throughout his studies, 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 driven community-impact initiatives as the director of JED For the Community. His passion for environmentalism has led to his work in clean energy policy development at the Clean Foundation and the Government of Nova Scotia, as well as his role as sustainability commissioner at the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU). 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 global network of 700,000+ students with limited access to high quality educational content.

While pursuing their B.Sc. in mathematics, Julia co-founded and continues to lead MycoNurseries, a non-profit focused on sustainably growing oyster mushrooms, which has received over $35,000 in funding. When not in the mushroom lab, Julia works at the McGill Office of Sustainability as a sustainable labs intern. They enjoy spending their free time in nature, reading, or learning more about the world. Also an avid writer, they wrote an article on their nonbinary identity for CBC and interned in the communications department of the India Autism Center.