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1980s
Jennifer Mook-Sang (MASc ’84, Psychology), best-selling children's author, released her latest picture book The Care and Keeping of Grandmas published by Tundra/Penguin Random House in April 2023. The book has been chosen as a Dolly Parton Imagination Library Blue Ribbon Selection.
2000s
Róisín Bonner (MA ’06, English) was recently promoted to Team Leader for Americas Commercial Industries at Microsoft. Throughout her 10 years at Microsoft, Róisín has built Go-to-Market strategies in various markets to support customers and partners in furthering their businesses. In her current role, Róisín leads a team of expert Industry Marketers and Go-to-Market Managers driving Digital and AI Transformation across Energy, Retail, Manufacturing, and Sustainability in the US, Canada, and Latin America.
2010s
Jessica Kuepfer (BA ’12, English) has recently changed roles from Director of Communications at Home Hardware Stores Limited to Managing Partner at Regenerative Capital Group. In this new role, she is seeking to acquire a strong Canadian B2B business between $500,000 and $5 Million EBITDA. Entrepreneurship through acquisition is an emerging field to respond to the 91% of Canadian business owners who do not have a succession plan in place.
Susan Chang (BA ’17, Economics) has recently authored a book to help job seekers break into the fast-growing machine learning and data science field. The book is titled Machine Learning Interviews, and is published by well-known reference and textbook publisher, O'Reilly.