Friday, November 8, 2019
We're very excited to introduce you to Agata Nowak, the winner of the 2019 J.D. Leslie Prize.
The Prize represents outstanding achievement in an undergraduate degree earned primarily through online courses. This year’s winner is many things: new Canadian, wife, mother, full-time worker, housekeeper, gardener, half-marathon runner, weightlifter and now a University of Waterloo Graduate.
Despite the language, economic, and cultural barriers she faced as a new immigrant, she was determined not only to succeed, but excel, and she did, completing her Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature, and graduating in Winter 2019, on the Dean’s Honours List with a 90.35 average.