Theme: Faces of impact

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Champlain College St-Lambert
900 Riverside
Saint-Lambert, Quebec, J4P 3P2
Canada

Georges Awaad

Self-Taught Polyglot and Master’s student in Didactics

With 25 languages under his belt, Georges Awaad, a self-taught polyglot, has been fascinated by different languages and cultures for as long as he can remember. He holds a Bachelor's in Linguistics and is currently working on a Master's in Language Didactics. He wishes to combine his skills in those fields to work with Indigenous people on revitalizing their languages.

Jonathan Cheung

Chef & Culinary teacher

From a very young age, Jonathan Cheung spent his time in his father's kitchen. His passion and talent for cooking led him to obtain his Red Seal. When he moved to Honk Kong, to work at his family's restaurants, he familiarized himself with a plethora of different cooking styles from all over the world. This led him to go on a journey to spread his passion for the culinary arts.

Quinn-Issla Rochester

Psychology Teacher at Champlain St-Lambert

A psychology teacher at Champlain College for close to 15 years, Mrs. Rochester came to teaching through a series of events that required self-determination to bring her academic journey to fruition. In her continued motivation to develop, Quinn-Issla recently became a yoga instructor, practices meditation and continues to teach and learn with her students.

Samir Shaheen-Hussain

Social justice activist, writer and pediatrician

Samir Shaheen-Hussain is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and an associate member of the School of Population and Global Health, both in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University. A Champlain Saint-Lambert College alumnus, Samir currently works as a pediatric emergency physician in Tio’tia:ke (Montréal), and the place he calls “home” is located on the unceded lands and waters of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. He is a member of the Caring for Social Justice Collective and is the author of the award-winning book Fighting for A Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada (foreword by Cindy Blackstock; afterword by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel).

Stéphanie Gagnon

PhD student in Ecology and Course Lecturer at McGill University.

Stéphanie Gagnon is a PhD student in Ecology and a Course Lecturer at McGill University. Stéphanie has an Honours BSc in Environmental Biology with a specialization in Applied Ecology and a minor in Social Environment awarded at McGill University. Stéphanie is interested in community ecology and plant-insect interactions. She is currently studying plant-pollinator relationships on floral strips surrounding cranberry farms in the Centre-du-Québec region. Her research aims to create an interaction network to uncover which wild pollinators and wildflowers occur in these disturbed systems and understand their mutual associations.

Yayaati Chachan

Astrophysicist and planetary scientist

Yayaati Chachan is an astrophysicist who specializes in the study of planets. He is currently a CITA National and TSI fellow at McGill University. He studied physics at the University of Cambridge and obtained his PhD in planetary science at Caltech. Yayaati uses both observations and theory to understand how planets form in disks of dust and gas around young stars. He also studies how the atmospheric compositions and orbital properties of planets reflect their formation and evolution history. He has used the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes to glimpse at planetary atmospheres and has formulated theories to explain why planets are the way they are.