Every year, KidsAbility supports more than 11,000 children and youth in Southwestern Ontario. Clients are helped through programs designed to assist with communication, social and physical goals, but face significant challenges when they move beyond the scope of their services at 21 years old.
Yuanming Shu
Alumni, Faculty of Environment (MSc ’10, PhD ’15)
> Co-founder and CEO, Ecopia AI
Shuo Tan
Alumni, Faculty of Mathematics (MSc ’10)
> Co-founder and VP of Engineering, Ecopia AI
Savanah Seaton
Graduate Student, Faculty of Arts
> Waywayseecappo First Nation
> Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Ellen MacEachen
Professor, Faculty of Health
> School of Public Health and Health Systems
Iyinoluwa “E” Aboyeji (BA ’12)
>Co-founder, Future Africa
Iyinoluwa “E” Aboyeji (BA ’12) is a serial entrepreneur who doesn’t consider his ventures a success unless they improve society.
Armen Bakirtzian
> Alumnus, Faculty of Engineering (BASc ’08)
> Co-founder and CEO, Intellijoint Surgical Inc.
Norah McRae
Associate Provost, Co-operative and Experiential Education
University of Waterloo
Norah McRae is leading a global conversation on the future of talent and lifelong learning.
Sandra Banks
Vice-President, University Relations
According to Randall Lane, chief content officer and editor with Forbes, COVID-19 has accelerated almost every field and trend that might otherwise take a decade to unfold.
Jean Becker joined the University of Waterloo in January as the new senior director, Indigenous initiatives. Becker, who is Inuk and a member of the Nunatsiavut Territory of Labrador, has a long track record of building reciprocal relationships between post-secondary institutions and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities.
Many people will be celebrating Canada on July 1. Please share how some Indigenous peoples prefer to mark Canada Day.
Cheri Chevalier
Alumnus, Faculty of Arts (BA ’95)
> Global Director, Emerging Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics at Microsoft
When Cheri Chevalier interviewed at Microsoft Canada as a fourth-year Waterloo St. Jerome's University co-op student, she was surprised by the ambitious task assigned to her.