Olivia is a co-founder of her school’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee and Gender and Sexuality Allyship. Passionate about theology, she audited a Christian Caregiving course, and used the transferable skills to create a support group for LGBTQ2S+ students in her school. She has worked as a summer camp leader and volunteered as a campaign manager for a local municipal campaign. In her free time, she loves to sew, write, and lift weights.

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 currently starting a bachelor’s degree in pharmacology at McGill University. Her passions include literature, poetry, theatre, and science, having received provincial and national recognition for her creations and projects. Neila created the SalleZen concept, which provides a safe space to students from her school who are struggling with mental health. Neila is also a member of the New Brunswick Youth Advisory Committee for Mental Health, which strives to prevent youth suicide. Meanwhile, Neila is an active member of the McGill poetry collective, where she shares her passion for the written word with other community members.

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 an active member of the youth wing of a political party, contributes to her electoral district association, and acts as head of the G7 youth delegation. She completed her public policy summer in the office of Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. In her spare time, Cathy enjoys dancing and playing violin.

As a software engineering student at McGill, Gracie acts an outreach coordinator for the Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering club, encouraging girls in high school and CEGEP to pursue engineering through workshops, tours, and events. She’s a member of the McGill Rocket Team, and has volunteered at the McGill Tech Fair, McGill Powwow, the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, and hosted guided tours at McGill Open House. Recently, she was invited to sit on panels: Indigenous Perspectives in STEM and Missing Voices in Climate Change & the Role of Education in Sustainability.

While pursuing their B.Sc. in chemistry and math at McGill University, Julia co-founded and currently leads MycoNurseries, a non-profit focused on sustainably growing edible mushrooms, which has received over $20,000 in funding. Passionate about ending sexual violence, Julia interned with Consent Labs, a charity providing holistic sexual consent education across Australia, and is a peer educator with McGill University’s Office for Sexual Violence Response, Support, and Education. They also wrote an article on their nonbinary identity for CBC and volunteered in the kitchen of the Meals-on-Wheels charity Santropol Roulant.

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.

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 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.

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.