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[Cynthia Goodfellow, the Administrative & Events Coordinator, welcomes everyone to the Calumet and Stong Colleges Leadership Awards Reception. The screen shows the Land Acknowledgement.]
So again I want to thank everyone for attending our Calumet and Stong Colleges Student Leadership Awards Celebration tonight. My name is Cynthia Goodfellow and I will be the emcee for this evening. We're now going to start the awards reception with the Land Acknowledgement read by one of our Peer Leaders Parmin Rahimpoor-Marnani.
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[Parmin Rahimpoor-Marnani reads out the Land Acknowledgement. The screen shows the Land Acknowledgement.]
Thank you Cynthia and welcome everyone. As we are not all gathered in the same space we recognize that this land acknowledgement might not be for the territory that you are currently on we ask that if this is the case you take the responsibility to acknowledge the traditional territory you are on and the current treaty holders. We recognize that many Indigenous Nations have long-standing relationship with the territories upon which York University campuses are located that precede the establishment of York University. The significance of giving land acknowledgments is essentially showing recognition of and respect to Indigenous Peoples and their traditional or ancestral territories which are essential elements of establishing healthy reciprocal relations. It is also the way forward in the steps towards reconciliation between Indigenous and Non-indigenous Peoples.
York University acknowledges that many Indigenous Nations have long-standing relationships with the territories upon which York University campuses are located that established that precede the establishment of York University. York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat. It is now home to many First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes Region.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the house rules of this event and introduces the Heads of the Colleges. The screen shows the Order of Ceremony.]
Thank you Parmin. So this evening we're coming together to celebrate the accomplishments of our Calumet and Stong Colleges Peer Leaders and to recognize their many achievements. We also wish to recognize the alumni, fellows, staff, and faculty who support the Colleges' clubs and our student success programming. First I'd like to establish some house rules for this evening. Tonight we are recognizing close to 650 students, alumni, fellows, staff, and faculty with over 800 awards and certificates. we ask that you keep yourself muted while names are being read out and we encourage you to keep your cameras on so you can so that the award recipients can see you celebrating with them. You are encouraged to use the Zoom reactions to express your enthusiasm.
There is also a photo area for award recipients. Once a group has been announced you'll be invited via the chat to enter the photo area. Tonight's event is being recorded for award recipients who could not be with us tonight. Captioning is available. I'm just going to double-check if that is on. And it's at the bottom of your screen where you'll see the option for live transcript. Tonight we will present the Calumet and Stong Colleges certificates for Student Leadership and our Certificates of Appreciation followed by our GEM awards. Now I'd like to call upon Jennine Rawana and Mazen Hamadeh to say their welcomes.
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[Jennine Rawana, the Head of Calumet College, welcomes everyone that is attending the event. The screen shows the Order of Ceremony.]
Welcome everybody. So welcome to Calumet and Stong Colleges Award Ceremony. We're ecstatic to be celebrating our community of faculty, staff, and predominantly students who have very much supported Calumet and Stong Colleges and all of our students particularly as we transitioned online due to the pandemic. We also want to thank Cynthia and our work/study students, Kaye and Waziha for preparing everything that we'll be doing this evening. So once again, so I may not introduce myself. So I'm Jennine Rawana, the Head of Calumet College and a faculty member in Psychology and I’ll pass it over to Mazen.
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[Mazen Hamadeh, the Head of Stong College, welcomes everyone that is attending the event. The screen shows the Order of Ceremony.]
Thank you, Jennine, and thank you Cynthia. My name is Mazen Hamadeh. I'm the Head of Stong College. Welcome again to the Calumet and Stong Colleges Awards Ceremony. But before we start presenting the awards and acknowledging the wonderful contributions by our students our alumni, our fellows, our staff and faculty, I would like to extend a special thank you to those who have been working in the background incessantly up to the last second before we initiated this meeting this celebration to make this possible. Cynthia Goodfellow is our emcee today. She has been leading the organization of this wonderful celebration and, of course we have two work-study students who have been part of the team working with Cynthia, Kaye and Waziha, who made this possible. Welcome to everyone, to the students, to the parents, to alum, to fellows, staff, faculty and family and parents who are here to
celebrate the accomplishments of many. Thank you.
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[Jennine Rawana introduces Judith MacDonnell. The screen shows the Order of Ceremony.]
And now we'd like to introduce Dr. Judith MacDonnell who's the Associate Dean for students for the Faculty of Health and she will say a few words to welcome you as well.
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[Judith MacDonnell, the Associate Dean, Faculty of Health, welcomes everyone attending the event. The screen shows the order of ceremony.]
Good evening everyone. I'd also like to welcome you to this awards ceremony which celebrates those wonderful accomplishments of many of our Faculty of Health students, alumni, and fellows. It has been a distinct pleasure for me to meet and learn from so many of our students who have taken on leadership roles through our Calumet and Stong Colleges over the last two years. It is a tribute to our highly committed College Heads Dr. Jennine Rawana and Dr. Mazen Hamadeh, our Student Success Coordinators and their teams, and students themselves that there have been so many tremendous opportunities for students to develop their leadership skills and participate in the everyday life at York. In ways that contribute to their growth and their well-being. The diversity of our student leadership is a testament to the priority that the Colleges have on creating inclusive and welcoming environments for students to engage and contribute to our Faculty of Health and broader communities. We've been so inspired by them their enthusiasm, their energy is palpable, as they work in collaboration with staff, students, and faculty to support their teams through mentorship and other academic programs, create opportunities to connect with each other in community, and engage in meaningful decision making as to the evolving strategic directions of the colleges themselves. These skills and contributions will serve our students well as they move forward in their academic and career paths.
I am looking forward to tonight's event and celebrating our student leaders, our alumni, our fellows, our faculty and all those who have been part of the wonderful opportunities for them to contribute in ways that we will celebrate tonight. On behalf of the Faculty of Health, I'd like to thank all involved with the Colleges and their leadership in the university in supporting students. Their vision and ongoing commitment to putting students at the center is so integral to creating a community of care. We appreciate all who have worked behind the scenes to make tonight's event possible. Congratulations to all.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the Peer Leadership Certificates. The screen shows the order ceremony.]
Thank you so much. As we've mentioned, the peer leaders who've contributed to their organizations whether it's their student clubs, student councils, or student governments, are an integral component to our community of the Colleges and the Faculty of Health. Your contributions are valued and appreciated. You have all committed precious hours to serve your fellow students, evolve the student success programs, and strengthen our community. You have left a wonderful legacy that will serve as a light to those following in your footsteps.
[The screen shows Calumet and Stong Colleges 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 Leadership Awards Reception, Wednesday, July 28th.]
On behalf of the Calumet and Stong Colleges, we would like to present the Peer Leadership Certificates. These certificates are to award students who have been consistently committed to their roles as peer leaders through the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 years. We'll first begin with Agents of Change and the Leadership Certificates for the Agents of Change Program - projects rather.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the Peer Leadership Certificates for Agents of Change projects. The screen shows the names of people with Discover You and Humans in Progress for 2019/2020.]
The Agents of Change program assists and encourages students to create their own personal community-oriented and health-related initiatives. These initiatives can cover a broad range of categories including physical, mental, and sexual health or any of the social determinants of health. Selected candidates receive funding and training on how to set up and finance their projects. The Agents of Change projects for 2019/2020 were Discover You which included: Jayestha Amin, Concetta Barranca, Mohamed Elsayed Elghobashy, Amin Hatemnejad, Cathy Kim and also we had Humans in Progress with Elizabeth German, Haniah Saleem, Ashim Sharma.
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[The screen shows the names of people with Discover You, Empowering Women in Health, and Luminate: Mental Health Conference Series for 2020/2021.]
The Agents of Change projects for 2020/2021 where again, Discover You with the same cast of of characters. Empowering Women in Health with Tatiana Espinoza Merlano. Luminate Mental Health Conference Series with Rupkatha Basu and Gwyneth Campbell.
[The screen shows the names of people with Toronto Tooth and Zeal for 2020/2021.]
And Toronto Tooth with Dayana Davoudi, as well as Zeal which had Sarah Labib, Fiona Cho, Ayeasha Irshad, Jake Janicki, Dema Talib, Samira Tari Zavareh, Ashish Srikanth as well as Raed Baker and Hila Broshi. And I apologize. I think I left outs. Did I leave Samira, no, I got her. I apologize.
And now to speak to the Catalyst Grant, I invite my colleague Agata Stypka.
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[Agata Stypka, Student Success Coordinator, introduces the Catalyst Grant and reads the names of the people working in it. The screen shows the names of people with the Catalyst Grant and Emery Collegiate Institute Peer Leaders for 2020/2021.]
Good evening everybody. Nice to see you and congratulations to all the peer leaders and welcome to all our guests. Calumet and Stong Colleges is committed to developing responsible student leadership and citizenship inspired one peer leader Simi Sahota to lead the submission process and secure a Catalyst Grant through York University's TD Engagement Center. The purpose of this community-based project was to create financial literacy videos and web and curriculum resources for students attending Emery Collegiate Institute, a local secondary school in the Jane and Finch community. This unique learning opportunity and partnership highlights a collaborative approach to community building, mentorship, and commitment to addressing existing needs in a creative way. The university community collaboration further inspired seven York University students to get involved and lead different aspects of the project such as conducting research, writing scripts, and editing videos. Seven Emery Collegiate Institute students were also involved in the project and led the development and implementation of learning activities to their peers. This project highlights the importance of working in partnership with our local community and reaffirms that community university partnership have the potential to offer students both high school students and post-secondary education students valuable learning and career opportunities and increase our collective problem-solving efforts.
We would like to recognize the following students and teachers who made this project possible. My dogs also agree. Simi Sahota, Shahmir Ahmed Waraich, Farwa Arshad, Kaye Canoy, Nicholas Cheng, Jennifer Diep, Kaman Hui, Kooshan Mazloomi, Dema Talib, Maria Palermo, who was the Principal at Emery Collegiate Institute, who is Hashir Ahmed, the staff support Dr. Deepinderjit Kaur Labana, Hari Chand Balachandran Pillai, Martina Hunter, Beverly Lopez, as well as Mohammed Mahfooz. Congratulations!
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the Peer Leadership Certificates for Course Representatives. The screen shows the names of Course Representatives for 2019/2020.]
Thank you Agata. Our Course Representatives are committed to their role as they presented weekly announcements, held study sessions, and facilitated online groups. This is going to be a long list, I warn you. The Course Representatives for 2019/2020 are Taylor Alves, Farwa Arshad, Domenic Baio, Ali Bashar, Simran Bouns, Celina Chhuok, Chizaram Eje, Mohamed Elsayed Elghobashy, I have an extra in my list so I'm going to switch over. I can't see the slide. Sorry I'm just going to jump down. Rida Ghani, Samantha Grenon, Sandy Guirguis, Jenane Jeyaseelan, Mariam Ksaibati, Tina Le Huynh, Marley Leslie, Puneet Madhok, Daniel Morales, Bhargavi Munshi, Fahima Nakhuda, Jasia Nauthoa, Nha Ngo, Breauna Niles, Gennaro Quintieri, Parmin Rahimpoor-Marnani, Ravina Sankar, Sherry Schneider, Muskan Sehgal, Gorvie Tandon, Javishaa Thiyagarajah, Emilio Toala, Nick Walsh, Saba Zhian.
[The screen shows the names of Course Representatives for 2020/2021.]
The Course Representatives for 2020/2021 Saumya Aggarwal, Eberechukwu Akadinma, Nadeen Al-Awamry, Jad Al-Haddad, Khadija Ali, Ola AlMakadma, Noor Aman, Rosemary Cameros Arbizu, Surbhi Arora, Abisha Arulselvan, Simone Bianco, Kelsey Andrea, Hila Broshi, Darren Campbell, Renee Chong, Milad Fard, Alexa Fevlo, Fatemeh Ghasemi, Gisalle Jahid, Tanya Jain, Mona Karimzadeh, Sara Krupica, Rena Kumar, Olivia Le Piane, Michelle Lee, Marley Leslie, Dennis Li, Heather Lumsden-Ruegg, Fnu Ali Mahnoor, Rohin Malekzadeh, Gilliane Chloe Maranan, Ashneet Midha, Zulfiqar Mir, Mohammad Yousaf Moosa, Nada Mostafa, Bhargavi Mushi, Nour Nader, Kiana Natale, Roshni Nayar, Jason Ngai, Ola Abanta Thomas Obewu, Leila Ohadi, Evgeniya Paraskevova, Pritha Patwary, Gennaro Quintieri, Abdul Rahman, Sindy Ramos Rubios, Haminda Sajjad, Maher Saleh, Sherry Schneider, Tal Shlifer, Derya Sonmez, Nida Syeda, Catherine Taniajura, Bliss Wong, and Junyao Zhang. We thank you for your service.
And now if the Course Reps would like to enter the photo area and have your photo taken.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the Peer Leadership Certificates for club Peer Mentors. The screen shows the names of Peer Mentors with Global Health Students Association (GHSA) for 2019/2020.]
We'll now be presenting the Leadership Certificates to our Peer Mentors in the Faculty of Health. These Peer Mentors have served consistently in their roles as they mentor incoming students new to York and assisted in their transition into university through countless emails, appointments, drop-in hours, and tabling on site. The Peer Mentors for the Global Health Students' Association are, Ayan Hashi and Natasha Tai.
[The screen is frozen due to technical difficulties.]
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The Peer Mentors for the Global Health Students' Association for 2020/2021 are, Mariam Gilao, Yashika Paul, Sheria Sawi, Anil Singh, and Yasmine Yusufi. We thank you for your service.
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The Peer Mentors for the Kinesiology and Health Sciences Student Organization for 2019/2020. Saniya Ahmed, Farzan Ansari, Domenic Baio, Sebastian D’Amario, Aly Fawzy, Kevin George, Elnaz Heidari, Javad Hoseini, Yasaman Hosseini, Niyousha Mojri, Hadi Mostofinejad, John Nasri, Maryam Nihal, Isabella Olo, Nassel Roxas, and Parbhat Sharma.
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The Peer Mentors for the Kinesiology and Health Sciences Student Organization for 2020/2021 are, Alexandra Arci, Esterina Stella Batti, Alexander Cole, Zahra Davoodi, Emilia Degutis, Leo Fang, Amtul Gill, Sandy Guirguis, Yasaman Hosseini, Ameen Hussain, Priyanka Khemraj, Ancilla Mak, Baraa Mohammed, Hadi Mostofinejad, Natasha Murphy, John Nasri, William Nguyen, Parmin Rahimpoor-Marnani, Nassel Roxas, Tahmina Sadat, Ramneet Toor, and Chimdinma Ukabiala and again we thank you for your service.
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[Due to a technical difficulty, the slides stopped working. Agata Stypka tries to troubleshoot the slides.]
I just need to change slides, Cynthia. For whatever reason, it's not loading up here. So just give me one second. I apologize. I apologize I don't know why I didn't know it again. We will share the slides after with people. I will for the sake of time I do need to to go along but we will make sure that people have that. There are also programs that we will send out after the event.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow continues to read out the names of Peer Mentors.]
The Peer Mentors for the Nursing Student Tutoring Ambassadorship and Mentoring Programs or NSTAMP for 2019/2020 Lommya Ayana, Baljeet Bhella, Sarah Curry, Charity Kate De Leon, Esther Haines, Shamelia Howard, Thanh Truc (Tina) Le, Harsimran Multani, Akugbe Hannah Osagie, Ryan Quesnelle, Viktoriia Salatiuk, and Yalda Wahab.
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The Peer Leaders for NTSAMP for 2020/2021 are Julienne Ahipatela, Ishaq Ahmed, Chiara Arena, Olivia Carvalhais, Ehsaan-Ul-Alam Chowdhury, Tayisha Jean, Marleen Krause, Alla Lapygina, Joy McLeary, Marissa Metauro, Vanessa Ogini, Sharif Opoku, Sarah Ranalli, Jessenia Sandoval, Nabila Sheikhnuno, Nilaany Vijayaranjan, and Grace Weichel. Again, we thank you for your service.
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The Peer Mentors for SAHMPI, the Student Association of Health Management, Policy and Informatics for 2019/2020 are Khadija Ali, Kashish Gupta, Maryam Hussain, Arani Ravichandran, Bisma Shahzadi, Naseema (Bahar) Wahidi.
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And the Peer Mentors for SAHMPI, the Student Association of Health Management, Policy and Informatics for 2020/2021 are Kendra Carson-Smith, Aida Dreca, Fahima Nakhuda, Kaysie Ngo, and Sana Uppal, and again we thank you for your service.
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The Peer Mentors for UPSA, the Undergraduate Psychology Student Association for 2019/2020 are Ryshon Barbolina, Promise Busulwa, Yee Lu Ding, Samantha Grenon, Gisalle Jahid, Joud Kawar, Tian Kuan, Sonika Kumari, Vivian Ly, Prabhdeep Mann, Jayashri Maraj, Kimberly Mckernan, Nathaniel N’Goran, Adesola Popoola, Dmytro Rebrov, Danielle Ryzer, Ashim Sharma, Anoushka Thapar, Emilio Toala, Alexandra Vesia, and Raha Zolfaghari.
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and the Peer Mentors for UPSA, the Undergraduate Psychology Student Association for 2020/2019 are Tanya Amaral, Casey Aurin, Ryshon Barbolina, Charlie (Xialin) Bo, Nicole Dimitrova, Amaka (Chidinma) Ekenkwo, Christina Fernando, Amanda Furlano, Samantha Grenon, Sonika Kumari, Krisha Lakhani, Katherine McGuire, Kiana Natale, Roshni Nayar, Diana Pombo, Alyssa Reddi, Danielle Ryzer, Nana Serwaa-Gyebi, Sarah Yakan, and Ameer Zaghi and again we thank you for your service.
The Peer Mentors now are welcome to enter the photo area to have your photo taken.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow asks Agata Stypka regarding the slides. Agata Stypka is able to share the slides but not in full screen.]
How are we doing there, Agata, with the slides? I'm able to share the screen every time I
do presenter view it cuts off after slide 14. So I'm happy to share how I was sharing. Otherwise normally that's probably fine. So I apologize for a slight technical difficulty. Just shows we're human and how much we need our peer leaders because there there's only a few helping us tonight.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the Peer Leadership Certificates for club Peer Tutors. The screen shows the names of Peer Tutors with GHSA for 2019/2020.]
So now we're going to present the Leadership Certificates to the Peer Tutors in the Faculty of Health. These Peer Tutors have been consistent in their roles where they provide free one-on-one academic service to help our students understand challenging course content and develop their learning skills.
The Peer Tutors for the Global Health Students Association for 2019-2020 are Ayan Hashi, Anab Mohamud, Cassandra Oluwasola, Natasha Tai, and Kauthar Wahib.
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[The screen shows the names of Peer Tutors with GHSA for 2020/2021.]
The Peer Tutors for the Global Health Students Association for 2020-2021 are Adekunmi Adekeye, Amal Abdulrahman, Samantha Belanger, and Veda Jain-Allington. We thank you for your service.
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[The screen shows the names of Peer Tutors with KAHSSO for 2019/2020.]
And the Peer Tutors for the Kinesiology and Health Science Student Organization for 2019/2020 are Mujeer Ahmad, Minahil Asif, Concetta Barranca, Parya Borhani, Ryan Cortez, Miriam Farid, Pooya Golestan, Nasimi Guluzade, Arash Jalalipor, Aqib Mannan, Negin Molaei, Kabilan Palamurugan, Omar Sbeanaty, Julia Sconza, Urooj Taqvi, Rostam Torki Sharifabadi, Anthony Veleno, Zamir Walji, and John Zaki.
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[The screen shows the names of Peer Tutors with KAHSSO for 2020/2021.]
The Peer Tutors for KAHSSO for 2020/2021 are Domenic Baio, Concetta Barranca, Nicholas Cheng, Krisha Dhall, Miriam Farid, Kimia Ghasemi, Pooya Golestan-Moghaddam, Anna Guinzbourg, Mankirat Gujral, Nasimi Guluzade, Maz Handelman, Arash Jalalipour, Mina Kaseb, Sadaf Khodagholi, Eva Kim, Aaron Kloosterman, Sinthuja Mahendran, Parmis Mirzadeh, Thanika Mohanarasa, Parastou Moghimi, Kabilan Palamurugan, Elia Rishis, Laura Spagnuolo, Mateja Stefanovic, Doreen Taj Bakhsh, Mounir Tanyoas, Jessica Tran, Sarah Vettoretto, Mahasta Vosough, and Zamir Walji. And again we thank you for your service.
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[The screen shows the names of Peer Tutors with NSTAMP for 2019/2020.]
The Peer Tutors for NSTAMP for 2019/2020 are Olivia Ewa-Elechi, Rodolfo Jr Lastimosa, Shirley Phuong, Bilal Qureshi, Jarinca Santos, Bani Simran, and Catherine Simmonds.
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[The screen shows the names of Peer Tutors with NSTAMP for 2020/2021.]
The Peer Tutors for NSTAMP for 2020/2021 are Mary Bahani, Sasha Brudlo, Melissa Castro, Ehsaan-Ul-Alam Chowdhury, Busola Friday, Selini Jayawickrema, Tayisha Jean, Vahid Karbassi, Joy McLeary, Julianna Neufeld, Sharif Opoku, and Grace Weichel and again we thank you for your service.
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[The screen shows the names of Peer Tutors with SAHMPI for 2019/2020.]
The Peer Tutors for SAHMPI for 2019/2020 are Naana Dei, Zainab Mawji, Sabna Refeeque, Jennifer Sperry, and Priyansh Thapa.
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[The screen shows the names of Peer Tutors with SAHMPI for 2020/2021.]
The Peer Tutors for SAHMPI for 2020/2021 is Hira Alizai and we thank you for your service.
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[The screen shows the names of Peer Tutors with UPSA for 2019/2020.]
The Peer Tutors for UPSA for 2019/2020 are Rupkatha Basu, Gunjan Bhardwaj, Aniqa Bhuiyan, Gwyneth Campbell, Francesca Carelli, Cristyana Farias, Stefanie Fiore, Hassan Jafri, Alisha Jangra, Sarah Labib, Alex Markwell, Larissa Mienicki, Stuart Nash, Anh Truong (Alissia) Nguyen, Megis Oskalns, Benjamin Patrick, Sujha Perinparajah, Vincent Rizzo, Karen Rofaeel, Kamyar Sartipi, Jessica Soliman, Dema Talib, and Karen Tseng
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[The screen shows the names of Peer Tutors with UPSA for 2020/2021.]
And the Peer Tutors for UPSA for 2020/2021 are Aliya Aiyub, Edman Akubar, Krystal Bridgelal, Francesca Carelli, Nicholas Commisso, Cristyana Farias, Nicole Gallo, Hasan Jafri, Charlotte Kerr, Marley Leslie, Larissa Mienicki, Maria Moncaleano, Stuart Nash, Alissia Nguyen, Emma Puric, Gennaro Quintieri, Ravina Sankar, Kamyar Sartipi, Bernadette Smith, Akshita Uppot, and Talia Vacca and again we thank you for your service.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow checks in on Agata Stypka regarding the slides. Agata Stypka motions a thumbs up.]
I'm just going to take a quick break there. I know that there was a question. Are you doing okay, Agata?
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[Waziha Kabir, Marketing Assistant, clarifies with Cynthia Goodfellow regarding the photo area for the awardees.]
Cynthia, I just wanted to clarify something about the photo area. I think it was a bit confusing to start with. I'm gonna send the list in the chat or I'll broadcast the message at the top. You'll see a green message will pop up and I'll say this group join the photo area now and then once that message pops up, you can join the photo area for your particular group and until then. Right now, Kaye's been taking pictures of different people differently. So, just to clarify. Okay that would be great if you could put that in the chat. Thank you.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the Leadership Certificates for the student councils. The screen shows the names of the CCC members for 2019/2020.]
So next we'll present the Leadership Certificates to Calumet College Council. The CCC represents as a student at Calumet College. The student council strives to enrich the lives of the Calumet student body through social and academic events. Collin Zinn, the 2019-2020 President of CCC will be presenting the Leadership Certificates for 2019 and 2020. Collin, are you here with us?
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[Collin Zinn, former CCC President gives their greetings and reads out the names.]
Yeah, over here. Can you hear me? I can! So, hi everyone! Thank you for inviting me to such an honor to be presenting these awards especially since this is my team. So I'll start with Collin Zinn, Meherab Al Mashud, Kanishka Bardhan, Charles Chan, Bianca Dias, Samantha Flint, Ryan Garvida, Devaughantee Jackson-Walker, Sally Jalal, Hyun Jung Joo, Max Kozlov, Rica Lapig, Christian Marcos, AnnaRita Maria, Nikolas Narea, Yathavan Navaratnam, Nada Osman, Orient Ozguder, Amanda Sampson, Claire Saramaki, Alessia Scanga, Vikram Vardhan Singh, Celia Vercilo, Vivian Vuong, and Ameer Zia.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces Vikram Singh, a former CCC President to read out the names for 2020/2021. The screen shows the names of CCC members for 2020/2021.]
Perfect! Thank you so much and Vikram Singh, 2020/2021 President of CCC will present the Leadership Certificates for 2020/2021. Vikram are you with us? Right here! Good evening everyone! Again like Collin, it's an honor to come present these awards. I know the team has worked hard like everybody else here and it's nice to get see them get some recognition. So, I'll begin with the list. First of, myself, Vikram Vardhan Singh, Kanishka Bardhan, Charlie Chan, Crystal Crawford, Rishi Debgupta, Jordana Desouza, Justin Garcia, Hyun Jung Joo, Anna Rita Librandi, Maria Marquez, Meherab Mashud, Yathavan Navaratnam, Ronnie O’Connor, Nada Osman, Orient Ozguder, Alessia Scanga, Ishani Sharma, Elizabeth Vanderploeg, Vivian Vuong, Meho Zamani, and Syed Zia. We thank you for your service and thank you Vikram and Collin.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the Leadership Certificates for SCSG. The screen shows the names of SCSG members for 2019/2020.]
And now to the Stong College Student Government. We're presenting the Leadership Certificates to the Stong College Student Government and they represent the students of Stong College. The student council strives to enrich the lives of the Stong student body through social and academic events. The Leadership Certificates for 2019-2020 are for Afolabi Bakare, Camila Barrios, Micaela Beccati, Siana Carlse, Katia Cestra, Gabriel Morondos Dancel, Vikram Deol, Daniel Farina, Peter Gullo, Naryeong Lee, Jordana Madio, Joshua Manabat, Lisa McGuire, Andrew Mozuraitis, and Alexa Pascal-Webb.
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[The screen shows the names of SCSG members for 2020/2021.]
The Leadership Certificates for 2020/2021 are again for Afolabi Bakare, Faisa Ali, Ryan Boromand, Braeden Charbonneau, Emily Clarke, Gabriel Dancel, Champion Downs, Daniel Farina, Ravneet Gill, Puneet Guleria, Molly Houlton, Marsha Jones, Andrew Mozuraitis, Joseph Nguyen, Poureh Nikan, Rhea Sahoo, Rashmi Sembakuttige, and Kalana Sembakuttige and again we thank you for your service.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the Leadership Certificates for Calumet and Stong Clubs. The screen shows the names of executive members with BSIP for 2020/2021.]
And now BSIP or Black Students in Psychology which joined the Colleges in 2020. They have hit the ground running. Their events have sparked conversation and learning and created space for students, staff, faculty, and alumni to discuss challenging issues. I'm going to invite Jean-Marc Moke, the current President of BSIP to present the BSIP Leadership Certificates.
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[Jean-Marc Moke, BSIP President, reads out the names.]
Hi guys and I just want to say this has been my pleasure to work with our team for both years 2020/2021 and 2019/2020 as well as the team that we had compiled for this year. So the certificates we will be giving to our 2020 team. Harmoni Watson, Shawnteau Richards, Sonia Nwoye-Vincent, Noor Aman, Danielle Otu, Amina Arigbabu, Jean-Marc Moke, Bri Darboh, Janel Acheampong, Amanda Nkeramihigo, Shawnteau Richards again and for our special members,
who helped us on our newsletter Ayeasha Irshad and Riya Nair.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow thanks Jean-Marc Moke and introduces the leadership certificates for GHSA. The screen shows the names of GHSA members for 2019/2020.]
Thank you, Jean-Marc and we thank all of BSIP for their service. Now I'd like to take a chance to present the Leadership Certificates to the Global Health Students' Association (GHSA) rather has worked tremendously hard every year to provide their students with social and academic opportunities and events through multiple collaborations with other student organizations and tailored networking events.
The GHSA has consistently dedicated time and effort to their undergraduate students. Also with their continuous development improvement and implementation of academic services such as peer tutoring, peer mentoring, and expert mentoring, this group of hard-working individuals defined global health and the program's mission and values. The Global Health Students' Association continues to assist students through their undergraduate degree and they strive to facilitate better student engagement and success.
Maleesha Paskarathas, the 2019-2020 President of GHSA will present the Leadership Certificates for 2019/2020. Are you with us Maleesha? She had an emergency. she couldn't make it. Okay okay pardon me. I will step in then. Maleesha Paskarathas, Iman Alebi, Michael Bersi, Elite Hasson, Ankita Kheti, Jacob Mathew, Bersi Michael, Thivani Parameswaran, Aliza Pechersky, Thrishana (Abi) Singh, and Maya Woolf.
And now, Farwa Arshad, the 2020/2021 President of GHSA will present the leadership certificates for 2020/2021.
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[Farwa Arshad, GHSA President, reads the names of the GHSA members for 2020/2021. The screen shows the names of GHSA members for 2020/2021.]
Thank you so much, Cynthia, and thank you for inviting us here and I'm really honored to present this award to the wonderful team we had last year especially during the pandemic. They were very helpful and really happy to have continued our services during the hard years we had. So now present the student leadership certicates to my team Asma Adam, Farhan Elahi, Sherbiga Gunaselvam, Sitra Hassen, Ankita Kheti, Jacob Mathew, Mobarshira Mourine, Sheila Noriega Mestanza, Thivani Parameswaran, Maleesha Paskarathas, Priscilla Quainoo.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow thanks Farwa Arshad and introduces Mazen Hamadeh to speak about KAHSSO. The screen shows the names of KAHSSO members for 2019/2020.]
Thank you so much Farwa. And now we move on and thank you everyone for your service. And now we move on to KAHSSO and I'm going to ask Mazen Hamadeh to speak about KAHSSO for a few seconds.
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[Mazen Hamadeh speaks about KAHSSO.]
Thank you yeah well what can I say about KAHSSO. Okay so since 2015 has done a wonderful job. They've initiated every single year one to two projects or a program to help the students either academically or co-curricularly from the peer mentoring to the peer tutoring and eventually they created the ambassador a program and that actually represented both KINE students and York students at events within and outside York as well as a more recently created the Discover You program that is designed to both help and assist or support high school students and higher education students not only in Toronto and the GTA but also this year they actually reached out to international students to provide them with leadership development skills workshops they have grown in quality and in quantity and the leadership that has taken KAHSSO through this particular journey since 2015 has been admirable.
Today they stand on the shoulders of giants and I'm hoping that moving forward the accomplishments by the future leaders in KAHSSO will eclipse their past accomplishments. Thank you very much. Would you like me to list the names? Actually Mohamed is going to do that for us. So Mohamed Elsayed Elghobashy, the current President of KAHSSO will present the leadership certificates for both 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.
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[Mohamed Elsayed Elgobashy, KAHSSO President, reads out the names.]
All right so for our 2019/2020 student leadership awards, Aly Fawzy, Saniya Ahmed, Sambidha Ghimire, Nida Hashimi, Amin Hatamnejad, Youssef Hegazy, Elnaz Heidari, and Gazi Mohammad.
[The screen shows the names of KAHSSO executive team for 2020/2021.]
And then now for our 2020/2021 awards, Amin Hatamnejad, Saniya Ahmed, Concetta Barranca, Ryan Cortez, Saba Dokouhaki, Mohamed Elsayed Elghobashy, Gazi Mohammad, John Nasri, Maryam Nihal, Isabella Olo, and Muskan Sehgal.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow invites Mazen Hamadeh to talk about NSTAMP. The screen shows the names of NSTAMP executive team for 2019/2020.]
Thank you Mohamed and we thank all of KAHSSO for their service. And now NSTAMP and I will invite Mazen speak to NSTAMP as well. Thank you, Cynthia. NSTAMP was created about almost three years ago by Angelina Batak and her team and that actually came out of the need by the united nursing students to establish a structured peer tutoring ambassadorship and mentoring program It's admirable that Angelina when she and her team decided to do that. She focused and then they pulled their resources and they were very structured and resilient and persistent in ensuring that this particular organization establishes high quality programs to be delivered to support nursing students. It's admirable there were a lot of challenges that Angelina and her team faced but they did not stop. I was impressed and I admire her resiliency and her perseverance and they are very well deserving of this recognition and award. Well done!
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[Cynthia Goodfellow invites Zainab Versi, NSTAMP President, to read the names.]
Thank you Mazen and now the 2020-2021, Zainab Versi, the President of NSTAMP will present the leadership certificates for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. All right hello everyone. My name is Zainab like Cynthia introduced I was the president of NSTAMP in the year 2020/2021. So here I will start by presenting the teams for the 2019/2020. Angelina Batac, Gabriel Brome, Alissa DHuman, Baljeet Kaur Bhella, Rodolfo Jr Lastimosa, Hir Patel, Trixia Santos, Catherine Simmonds, Yalda Wahab, Meredith Weaver, and Vonny Wong. And then this is my amazing team from 2020/2021.
[The screen shows the names of NSTAMP executive members for 2020/2021.]
So that's me, Zainab Versi, Ishaq, Ahmed, Chiara Arena, Mary Bahani, Richa Bawa, Olivia Carvalhais, Ashley Franks, Busola Friday, Selini Jayawickrema, Corina Lee, Shiri MacPherson, Amanda Martin, Sharif Opoku, Isabella Resendes, Rebecca Titus, Lisette Verzijenberg, and Grace Weichel.
Thank you Zainab and thank you to all of NSTAMP. We thank you for your service.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the leadership certificates for NSAY. The screen shows the names of NSAY executive members for 2019/2020.]
Next we'd like to present the leadership certificates to the Nursing Student Association at York or NSAY. NSAY is an organization which represents all nursing students at York University. NSAY seeks to promote a healthy and collaborative learning environment. This environment supports students passion for the profession while enhancing the academic relationship between faculty and students of the York University community. Tenzin Palden, the current NSAY President will present the leadership certificates for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. Tenzin, are you with us?
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[Tenzin Palden, NSAY President, reads the names.]
I'm here. Can you hear me? Perfect, thank you. Thank you, Cynthia. Hi everyone. I'm happy to be here to present the following people who have worked hard for NSAY in the previous years. So I'll start off with 2019-2020 with Michelle Bookal, Kamala Acharya Bhattarai, Jennifer Adu-Boateng, Sungeun (Sandy) Cho, Baljeet Bhella, Felix Fortier, Rodolfo Jr Lastimosa, Maryan Mohamud, Hir Patel, Nupur Raghav, Matthias Schulz, Kabita Thapa, Andreea Tudor.
[The screen shows the names of NSAY executive team for 2020/2021.]
This is the team for 2020-2021, Trixia (Kay) Santos, Omotayo Akinola, Mary Bahani, Melissa Castro, Benjamin Danquah, Francine Hoang, Maram Muktar, Jenny Nguyen, Tenzin Palden, Rozanne Perera, Fatima Rizvi, and Sarah Vasquez.
Thank you and thank you to NSAY for your service.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the leadership certificates for 2NA and reads the names. The screen shows the names of NSAY executive team for 2019/2020.]
The Second Entry Nursing Association or 2NA is a team of Second Entry Nursing Students committed to fostering a supportive intellectual community they aim to create learning opportunities and to promote the well-being of second entry students one of 2NA's main goals is to increase student engagement with nursing faculty in order to build trusting professional relationships that form the foundation of the Nursing community here at York. Additionally they aim to promote collaborative work between Nursing students by creating environment inviting environments and providing support to allow their peers to succeed in the program 2NA's leadership strengthens the Nursing community at York and contributes to a framework for deeper intellectual engagement.
The recipients of the 2019-2020 leadership certificates for 2NA are as follows Claudia Guillen Dominguez, Hamdi Ali, Mursal Aziz, Kristella Cafa, Michelle Check, Pei Xuan (Rachel) Chen, Bryan Cordova, Rosemarie Gangadeen , Clarissa Huisman, Paul Mai, and Chelsea Martin.
[The screen shows the names of 2NA executive members for 2020/2021.]
The 2NA Executives for 2020/2021 are Paul Mai, Eti Ayzenberg, Nicole Fogel, Michaela Grossi, Veronica Peterka, Cathy Phan, Aleksandra (Alesia) Rodeghiero, Wesley Sohn, Vinijaa Suthaharan, Geethega Uruthiralingam, Miryam Weistein, Aviva Wise, Michelle Yang, and Vyshnave Yogeswaran. We thank you for your service.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow invites Jennine Rawana to speak about SAHMPI. The screen shows the names of SAHMPI executive members for 2019/2020.]
On now SAHMPI, I'd like to invite Jennine to say a few words about SAHMPI if you would. Sure! So SAHMPI is the Student Association Students Association of Health Management Policy and Informatics. So they are the primary organization that supports our Health Studies unit and throughout the years they have increased their programming to support the mental health and wellness of students. They also undertook collaboratively with the Chair and Undergrad Program Director a survey to assess the needs of students and then over the past couple years have responded to some of the outcomes of that survey and support the Health Studies students by embarking and undertaking programming and peer mentoring and peer tutoring as well as other events including both social and academic. So I'll pass it over to Khadija who can say the names on the certificates.
[Khadija Ali, SAHMPI President, reads out the names.]
Hello everyone. Thank you for recognizing their efforts. So the SAHMPI Executive for 2019-2020 are Alex Christy, Safiyyah Ali , Claire Saramaki, Clementine Utchay, Narjis Panjwani, Marvelyn Oni , Maria (Daniela) Arroyo Merizalde, and Dorsa Shakeri.
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[The screen shows the names of SAHMPI executive team for 2020/2021.]
The SAHMPI Executives for 2020/2021 are Khadija Ali, Kashish Gupta, Emma Gurevich, Sarah Khan, Amirpooya Sadeghi, Dorsa Shakeri, and Nida Ahmed Syeda.
Thank you Khadija and thank you to SAHMPI for your service.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the leadership certificates for UPSA. The screen shows the names of UPSA executive team for 2019/2020.]
The Undergraduate Psychology Students Association or UPSA continues to strive to meet the needs of Psychology students and aim them aid them rather on their journey as undergraduates. Their events foster community building and also nurture relationships with faculty members and external organizations. UPSA has achieved great success in both peer tutoring and peer mentoring programs with weekly meetings that foster leadership by implementing skill-based content. We would like to present the leadership certificates to the Undergraduate Psychology Student Association and Karen Rofaeel and Fara Seddigh the 2020 UPSA Co-Presidents will present the leadership certificates for the Undergraduate Psychology Students Association.
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[Karen Rofaeel, former UPSA Co-President, reads out the names.]
Thank you so much, Cynthia. It's my honor to read the names of my amazing fellow executives. So starting off with 2019, Victoria Medley-Parkins, Parisa Sharif Esfahani, Dana Burlac, Sabrina Da Silva, Serena Darking, Tatiana Espinosa-Merlano , Deanna Gisborne, Avleen Goindi, Waziha Kabir, Raymond Mar, Jayashri Maraj, Peyman Moghimi, Noormehak Nagra, Karen Rofaeel, Daniel Rodriguez, Ayla Sadeghi, Fara Seddigh, and George Wong.
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[Fara Seddigh, former UPSA Co-President, reads out the names. The screen shows the names of UPSA executive team for 2020/2021.]
Thank you Karen and it's with great honor that I present to you the 2020/2021 executive team. Karen Rofaeel, my great co-president, Fara Seddigh, which is myself, Kaye Canoy, Serena Darking, Stefanie Fiore, Alisha Jangra, Waziha Kabir, Avijeh Khabbaznia, Peyman Moghimi, Kiana Natale, Ayla Sadeghi, Joey Si, Jessica Soliman, Anoushka Thapar, George Wong, and Shir Ziskind.
Thank you Karen and Fara and we thank UPSA for their service.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the leadership certificates for ambassadors, peer coaches, and lab facilitators. The screen shows the names of KAHSSO Ambassadors for 2019/2020.]
We'd now like to present leadership certificates to the Ambassadors, Peer Coaches and Lab Facilitators who are instrumental to our student clubs. The KAHSSO Ambassadors for 2019/2020 are Ahmed Abbas, Jayestha Amin, Elaine Balidio, Saba Dokouhaki, Mohamed Elsayed Elghobashy, Gagan Grewal, Amin Hatamnejad, Jay Prashar, and Muskan Sehgal.
[The screen shows the names of KAHSSO Ambassadors for 2020/2021.]
The KAHSSO Ambassadors for 2020/2021 are Jayestha Amin, Frina Amin, Clara Baker, Sushmeet Bath, Rida Ghani, Mankirat Gujral, Sophie Haleem, Kayla Hamidi, Cathy Kim, Antonia Kritikos, Tina Le Huynh, Puneet Madhok, Nada Mostafa, Abhi Pathak, Dorsa Shakeri, Armita Sheikhi, Janani Sivakumar, Harjot Suri, Priejaanth Thayanithy, and Parisa Zargham Boroujeni.
[The screen shows the names of KAHSSO Discover You Peer Coaches for 2020/2021.]
The KAHSSO Discover You Peer Coaches for 2020/2021 are Youmma Ahmed-Hassan, Robyn Ahn, Casey Ann Arguelles, Esterina Stella Batti, Hila Broshi, Zahra Davoodi, Amy Epstein, Alexa Fevlo, Mankirat Gujral, Parsa Jamal-Zadeh, Ashneet Midha, Parastou Moghimi, Shalinee Nagularajah, Jason Ngai, Kudi Okah, Sachin Pancham, Evgeniya Paraskevova, Jimil Patel, Nekaylah Prevost, Abdul Rahman, Sara Rengifo, Nassel Roxas, Doreen Taj Bakhsh, Jessica Tran, Parsa Vahabishekarloo, and Tanya Virgo.
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[The screen shows the names of NSTAMP Ambassadors for 2020/2021.]
The NSTAMP Ambassadors for 2020/2021 are Julienne Ahipatela, Arane Asokumar, Francine Hoang, Eunchong Lim, Melissa Lo, Atena Mohammadi Golrang, Emilie Nadeau, Anousha Ross, Jessenia Sandoval, Ola Abanta Thomas Obewu, and Lalezar Tuner.
[The screen shows the names of NSTAMP Lab Facilitators for 2020/2021.]
The NSTAMP Lab Facilitators for 2020/2021, Ishwori Adhikari, Sudha Adhikari Sharma, Urmila Gainju Gothe, Tayisha Jean, Vahid Karbassi, Eunchong Lim, Anissa Martin, Emilie Nadeau, Anousha Ross, Jessenia Sandoval, Ola Abanta Thomas Obewu, Lalezar Tuner, and Su Ryeon Wang.
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[The screen shows the names of UPSA Ambassadors for 2019/2020.]
The 2019 and 2020 UPSA Ambassadors are Sana Abidi, Sarah Alsyed, Farah Ansari, Gauri Bagga Kaye Canoy, Avijeh Khabbaznia, Arletta Nytko, Sarah Parke, and Joey Si.
[The screen shows the names of UPSA Ambassadors for 2020/2021.]
Shreya Agarwal, Sarah Alsyed, Orly Aziza, Gauri Bagga, Jennifer Diep, Kaniz Farhat, Kaizeen Irani, Dennis Li, Ibukun Oresegun, Saina Pour Shahnazari, Irina Reunova, Maher Saleh.
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[Cynthia Goodfellow introduces the certificates of appreciation. The screen shows the names of faculty, and staff honoured by KAHSSO.]
And now we move to the Certificates of Appreciation. Calumet and Stong Colleges would like to recognize the alumni, faculty, and staff who have stayed committed to our collective vision of student success. They have supported our students by sharing their wealth of experience and skills through the years. For Kinesiology and Health Science Student Organization or KAHSSO, as faculty we have Ali Abdul Sater, Michael Connor, Jessica L. Fraser-Thomas, Denise Henriques, David Hood, Hernan Humana, Merv Mosher, Michael Riddell, Neil Smith, and Parissa Safai. I apologize I can't see the slide and I'm reading off. As staff we have Mary Saad.
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[The screen shows the names of alumni, faculty, and staff honoured by NSTAMP.]
The Certificates of Appreciation for Nursing Student Tutoring Ambassadorship and Mentorship Program or NSTAMP, We have alumni, Najeem Popal.
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[The screen shows the names of alumni, faculty, and staff honoured by UPSA.]
And for UPSA, we have faculty, John Eastwood, Christopher Green, Richard N. Lalonde, Jodi Martin, Ward Struthers, Gary Turner, and staff Ellie Coult.
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For Black Students in Psychology, we have faculty, Julie Condor, Mary Derocher, Monique Herbert. For Calumet College Council, we have alumni, Frances Gontoula and Collin Zinn. The Calumet and Stong Colleges, we have Cameron Mattice.
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[The screen shows the names of alumni, faculty, and staff honoured by GHSA.]
For Global Health Students' Association or GHSA, we have alumni, Shahad Aali, Farah Ahmad, John Andonoff, Amrita Daftary, Cameron Mattice, Firdous Mehta, Ranhana Nagi, Genelle Pollydore, and Clayton Rhodes.
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[The screen shows the names of alumni, faculty, and staff honoured by NSTAMP.]
For the Nursing Student Tutoring Ambassador Mentorship Program or NSTAMP, We have alumni, Angelina Batac and Myja Hogendoorn. For faculty we have, Irfan Aslam, Laura Nicholson, Sandra Peniston, and Tara Pouyat. And for staff, we have Dhivya Balakrishnan and Savina Sawan Sengupta.
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[Jennine Rawana introduces the Faculty & Alumni Leadership Gem Awards. The screen shows the recipient of the Calumet College Amethyst Purpose Award.]
And now we're going to- I'm going to turn it over to Jennine and Mazen to talk about the Faculty and Alumni Leadership GEM Awards.
So established in 2018 by Mazen and myself, the Head of Calumet College and the Head of Stong College. These Gem Awards recognize the outstanding leadership achievements of peer leaders. So peer leaders who have gone above and beyond their typical roles of either President or Coordinator or work-study student. These students embody the values of the Colleges with a vision to embrace the shared responsibility of building a vibrant and bold community and have made significant contributions to Calumet and Stong Colleges. As well these students are often recognized beyond the Colleges for university-wide leadership awards. These awards underscore the commitment of these peer leaders to the Colleges to foster a climate of our vision which is learning, leadership, and citizenship.
Eligible students must meet a minimum criteria. So they're enrolled in undergraduate studies. They have very good academic standing so a minimum GPA of B+. They are affiliated with either Calumet or Stong and they hold a peer leadership position. Is a volunteer or for a new award that we have they can be a staff member, a work-study student, or is affiliated with some capacity with Calumet College or Stong College and they also exhibit our values of being student-centric, collaborative, mentorship, engagement, and bold.
They've also undertaken additional training where they have completed our three-day foundational peer leadership training. So we'd like to extend a special thanks to these Gem Awards for their contributions to the Colleges and I know that they will continue to contribute to the communities that they are part of.
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So the first award we want to acknowledge is the award of our alumni contributions. So the Calumet and Stong Colleges' Amethyst Purpose Award for Influential Leadership. This award recognizes alum and our fellows of Calumet and Stong Colleges who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the Colleges' mandate and our strategic plan. They engage students and our community members. They elevate the Colleges and our student success programs and they very much positively impact our community and our role models for our peer leaders that strengthen or redefine leadership and community engagement. We're just so thankful that these alum members or fellows or faculty members have made the commitment to the Colleges. So for Calumet College the recipient of the 2019/2020 Amethyst Purpose Award for Influential Leadership is Clayton Rhodes. I would like to invite Clayton Rhodes to say a few words.
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[Clayton Rhodes gives their speech.]
Thank you so very very much. First off congratulations to all of tonight's leadership award recipients. You are all very much deserving. Right now actually I'd like to invite everyone to please join me in thanking Dr. Mazen Hamadeh and Dr. Jennine Rawana for everything they do for Calumet and Stong College. So you can go to your reactions or clap. Yes, because they do a tremendous amount of work and I think they really need to be recognized for everything that they do. So thank you very much Jennine and Mazen for what you do. I'm truly thankful for receiving this acknowledgement today. I have so much fun connecting with students through the alumni student events and I look forward to continuing to be a part of the Calumet and Stong communities for many many years to come. So thank you very much. I appreciate it, thank you.
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[Mazen Hamadeh announces the recipient of the Stong College Amethyst Purpose Award. The screen shows the recipients of Stong College Amethyst Purpose Award.]
Thank you, Clayton. I will announce the our receptions for the Stong College Amethyst Purpose Award for Influential Leadership for the 2019-2020 year and it is it goes to the Stong College 50th Anniversary Planning Committee and major contributors. I would like to invite Steve Dranitsaris who was a Chair of the planning committee not only to actually read through a long list of wonderful contributors but also after that to perhaps speak to the contribution of the committee and the accomplishments. Steve would you please go ahead.
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[Steve Dranitaris gives their speech.]
Thank you very much Mazen. Yeah, it was a lot of work and we pulled in a lot of people and it was it really was quite the undertaking and it was something that I think I chased you down the hall on the way to a class Mazen and to say, you know what? The 50th anniversary of the College this year and we really should have some sort of celebration and it I think within six and a half months we we pulled the whole thing off but we had a wonderful group of people including a number of students and I'll talk about the students in a few minutes because the whole thing would not have been a success without them but you know what bringing people back to a place that shaped who they are who they would be for the rest of their lives where they would meet their life partner and so forth is really an important thing to do and I think you know the 300+ people who came back and the hundreds of others who reconnected because of the effort even though they weren't able to come back it certainly was all worth it.
So let me, first of all, recognize everyone on the committee and contributors, Shahin Alizadeh, was our lead sponsor, Brian Armstrong, Judy (Kolt) Armstrong, Afolabe Bakare, Tom Barlow, four-time Juno award nominee who performed for us at the event for a song. So to speak, Don Butcher, Katia Cestra, Chris Deighan, Sue (Woodend) Deighan, Marcel Desrochers, Ashley Estwick, Linda (Kowalchuk) Galas, Ralph Gauthier, Christine Haratsidis, Gary Jones, Mike Kaczer, Molly Larin, Rob Martellacci, Keith Minkhorst, Sheila Minkhorst, Janet Muir, my partner in crime who kept us all on the straight and narrow for all through all the planning and the execution, Tristian Reid, who is with us tonight, Brian Rodgers, Rick Ruegg, Elizabeth “Betty” Sabiston, Ron Schwass, one of our sponsors, Neil Sinclair, Kim (Peel) Tesolin, Rob Wright, another one of our sponsors. Did I miss these people? No I think I've got them all already.
What was really great about this was the only support we had was from the College in terms of staff, a bit of staff support, work-study students and so forth. Everything else we sort of had to do- we were able to get more money in sponsorship and and generated more revenue than we actually needed so we were able to contribute the proceeds to the August Iraq Bursary at Stong College. So that there will be hopefully an additional bursary awarded each year as a result of our efforts for the event. Let me talk a little bit about the student volunteers.
Thanks to Dr. Hamadeh we were able to recruit about 20 student volunteers who helped with registration helped directing our visitors coming home around the college and so forth and they were absolutely terrific but there's one person, in particular, I wanted to point out a young woman by the name of Dasha Satovska and Dasha, she just jumped in there and she was absolutely wonderful. You know, the two weeks leading up to the event and getting everything organized I don't know how she ever prepared for her exams and everything else because she she was burning the midnight oil to make sure our event came off so it was a really really wonderful show off the student volunteers at the college.
The other great thing about the event was it was able to give everyone who attended a glimpse into what Stong College is today. It was very different when we went through and I was one of the first students in Stong when it was called a G back in 1969. I know I really don't look that old, right? But you know it, the college has changed a lot the university has changed a lot and everyone who came back really thought it was an excellent experience to learn what the college is today and Mazen we can't thank you enough for all you did and your leadership. So thank you very much. Steve, thank you very much. I'm humbled that you acknowledged me but I would like to thank everyone personally and specifically you Steve and as I said at the Dinner Gala I'm looking forward to you sharing the sixtieth. Well let's hope we have gone come out of the pandemic by then healthy. Thank you very much. Move on to presenting the next award, Jennine will present the one for Calumet College.
[Jennine Rawana introduces the Amethyst Purpose Award.]
The recipients of the 2020 and 2021 Amethyst Purpose Award for Influential Leadership, our first person up is Monique Herbert.
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[Monique Herbert gives their speech. The screen shows the names of the recipient of Calumet College Amethyst Purpose Award.]
Thank you Jennine and greetings everyone from Barbados. The rain just held off just enough for me to be able to say a few words. First of all congratulations to all of the fellow award winners. Thank you so much for the recognition but I must say that it's those students and the community that we have that really makes me an influential leader and so thank you to the Colleges and to all those students and staff who support all of my crazy ideas. All the things that we come up with and so I think this is kind of what contributed this award. So thank you very much.
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Thank you Dr. Herbert. I'd also like to recognize Clayton Rhodes for the second Amethyst Purpose Award for Influential Leadership for 2020/2021. Clayton, you can see a few words. Well thank you again. I really appreciate the opportunity to be here and I really appreciate the opportunity to work with Calumet and Stong students in all Stong and student and alumni events and I'm really excited to get back onto the campus and start meeting students again. So thank you very much for this. I really really appreciate it. It's very kind. Thank you.
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[Mazen Hamadeh introduces the Opal Award. The screen shows the name of the recipient of Opal Award.]
Thank you, Clayton. Cynthia, would you like to present the Opal Award? or would you like us to present it? How about you go ahead. Okay great! The Calumet and Stong Colleges Opal Student-Staff Leader Award for Exceptional Service. This is the inaugural year for this award. This award recognizes a current Calumet and Stong College work study student-staff employee who has exhibited significant initiative and affected measurable outcomes in their role as a student-staff member. The employee always has a positive attitude is punctual. Accomplishes their work and responsibilities on time. Meeting high standards. Is proactive in addressing program needs and delivers projects with grace and has gone above and beyond the expectations of their staff positions. The employee demonstrates collaboration, collegiality, openness, and sharing ideas and valuing different perspectives. The employee may have also made a significant contribution to a particular student success program or student-led initiative. The employee's accomplishments support and promote the vision, mission, and values of the Colleges, student-centric, collaborative, mentorship, engagement, and bold. And of course our vision is inspiring learning leadership and citizenship. Jennine, I would like to invite you to present the 2020/2021 Calumet College Opal Student Staff Leadership Award. I think Jennine may have stepped away for a moment. So I will go ahead. So the recipient of the 2020/2021 Calumet College Opal Student Staff Leadership Award for Exceptional Service is Simi Sahota. I would like to invite you to speak for a minute or two about your experience.
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[Simi Sahota gives their speech.]
Thank you so much. I'm sorry if there's so much noise going on in the background. I actually have a birthday party today. I woke up this morning to an email saying that I won the award. So it's such a beautiful present but I hope you guys can hear me well but I just wanted to say thank you to first of all Agata for always seeing something in me. I remember I started off as a PASS leader actually with Monique. Congratulations, Monique, on your award as well but ever since then she always saw something in me and then I became a Leadership Coach after that and I hope I did inspire some students along the way and after that especially with Mazen and Jennine's support. You guys are just so amazing. Thank you so much. I honestly do believe that like we are one big family and I'm so glad that I was able to be a part of Calumet and Stong Colleges and create the Financial Wellness Project and hopefully leave a legacy here at York. So again big thank you and I'll be partying for you guys. I have a whole party going on here. So congratulations to everyone today.
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[Mazen Hamadeh introduces the Topaz Bold Leader Award. The screen shows the name of the recipient of Stong College Topaz Bold Leader Award.]
Thank you Simi. We'll move on to the next award the Calumet and Stong College Topaz Bold Leader Award for Leadership Capacity and Community Engagement in First Year at York University. The award recognizes a first year student who has shown significant leadership accomplishment by actively being involved in college life. This student is celebrated for their active engagement and their significant contribution to their cohort. The recipient of the 2019/2020 Stong College Topaz Board Leader Award is Mohamed Elsayed Elghobashy. Mohamed, I would like to invite you to speak for a minute or two about your experience.
[Mohamed Elsayed Elgobashy gives their speech.]
Absolutely! So I would like to first start by thanking the Colleges for awarding me the Topaz Bold Leader Award. It is a great honor to have had the opportunity to continue working with Dr. Mazen Hamadeh and Dr. Jennine Rawana. You inspire me every single day to work harder, stay focused, shatter my comfort zone and always seek innovation, open-mindedness, and creative thinking. I would also like to extend special thanks to Bayley, Agata, and Abdul who have supported me in ways that are too plentiful to mention in my short speech but that are too valuable to have led to my achievements and growth in the Colleges. I would also like to thank each and every member of KAHSSO. Your hard work, creativity, and perseverance especially during this past year and since the pandemic started showed me that nothing is impossible when you are surrounded by people who care about one another and want to see each other grow. Alright I would like to also thank my Mom, Dad, and Sister who are the reason why I'm here today. Without their support and continuous motivation, none of this would have been possible and lastly. I would like to dedicate my words to my Grandma, who recently passed away at the start of this year from COVID complications, but her memory lives on each with each and every step that I take to better myself or achieve something that I might not have seen myself achieving. Thank you all!
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[Mazen Hamadeh introduces the Stong College Topaz Bold Leader Award.]
Thank you Mohamed. We share your sadness but also we celebrate your achievements. The
recipient of the 2020/2021 Stong College Topaz Bold Leader Award for Leadership Capacity and Community Engagement in First Year at York University. Is Alexa Fevlo. I'm not sure if Alexa is here. Is Alexa here? So Alexa is not here. So, we can move forward with the next award. Is Jennine back? Yes. Jennine would you like to present the next award please? Sure!
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[Jennine Rawana introduces the Sapphire Dream Team Award. The screen shows the recipients of the award.]
The Calumet and Stong Colleges' Sapphire Dream Team Award for Visionary Leadership and Transformative Community Engagement. There's no I in teamwork. Greater than the
sum of its individual talents, this team or student organization has demonstrated collaboration,
collegiality, openness, and sharing ideas, and valuing different perspectives. The
team has accomplished a multi-year project or implemented a strategy over more than one year that meets the Colleges' vision with a significant contribution to the community. I'll pass it over to Mazen who will read the one for Stong.
[Mazen Hamadeh introduces the recipients of Stong College Sapphire Dream Team Award.]
The recipient of the 2019/2020 Stong College Sapphire Dream Team Award for Visionary Leadership and Transformative Community Engagement is actually NSTAMP. NSTAMP submitted an application showing their accomplishments for two years since their establishment by Angelina Batac and her team. I will I would like to ask Angelina to- Angelina, would you care to read the list of names who made this possible?
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[Angelina Batac reads out the names.]
Sure of course! All right so, Baljeet Kaur Bhella, Kimberly Bodick, Gabriel Brome, Myja Hogendoorn, Kiranpreet Kaur, Rodolfo D. Lastimosa Jr., Jenny Nguyen, Najeem Popal, Aleena Rahat, Trixia Kay Santos, Rachael Sayeau, Catherine Simmonds, Elizabeth Sombilon, Ivanpreet Virk, and Vonny Wong. Thank you.
[Mazen Hamadeh] Would you like to say a word or two about your experience with NSTAMP?
[Angelina Batac] Yes. It was a great opportunity and I'm truly grateful to have had the position and had the opportunity to make those connections with everyone and I'd just like to thank all the executives, peer mentors, peer tutors, lab facilitators, and the ambassadors from the Nursing Student Tutoring Ambassadorship and Mentorship Programs for all their hard work and contributions. For really making this club a success and just transforming NSTAMP into its own official student governing body for the first time in Fall 2019. There were a lot of challenges but together we worked. We worked together to overcome these challenges and make a difference and just seeing all the impact that we've made on other students is so amazing and I actually work in the hospital and we have a lot of Nursing students and their consolidation from Second Entry Nursing students and they've either been part of the team or they know about the club and are using the services. So it's just been a great opportunity and I'm so glad to see the club continuing to thrive and make an impact.
[Mazen Hamadeh] Thank you Angelina and Jennine will present the next award.
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[Jennine Rawana introduces the Calumet College Sapphire Dream Team Award. The screen shows the names of the recipient.]
So the 2020/2021 Calumet College Sapphire Dream Team Award for Visionary Leadership and Transformative Community Engagement is awarded to the Undergraduate Psychology Student Association for the contributions over the last four or five years. I'd like to welcome Karen Rofaeel and Fara Seddigh to join us to say a few words. You can also read out the names on the slide please.
[Karen Rofaeel] Thank you Jennine. Hi again everyone. My name is Karen.
[Fara Seddigh] and I'm Fara
[Karen Rofaeel] and we were your Co-Presidents of UPSA in the 2020/2021 term
[Fara Seddigh] and we are really honored to accept this award on behalf of our team at UPSA.
[Karen Rofaeel] We obviously wouldn't be a dream team without all our dedicated and hard-working executive members and volunteers who are really responsible for all of us success. So a huge thank you to all our past and current members.
[Fara Seddigh] We'd also like to thank the Colleges with a special shout out to our support team at Calumet for always having UPSA's back and to all staff and faculty for helping us reach students. We dedicate this recognition to you. Karen would you like to read the names?
[Karen Rofaeel] Vanessa Critini, Serena Darking, Elizabeth German, Deanna Gisborne, Avleen Goindi, Waziha Kabir, Jayashri Maraj, Victoria Medley-Parkins, Peyman Moghimi, do you want to continue the rest?
[Fara Seddigh] Sure! Abdulkhader Mohammed, Cody Nguyen, Vincent Rizzo, Karen Rofaeel, Ayla Sadeghi, Salma Saleh, Fara Seddigh, Parisa Sharif-Esfahani, and George Wong.
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[Mazen Hamadeh introduces the Emerald Initiative Award. The screen shows the names of the recipients of the award.]
Thank you Karen and Fara. I'll pass it over to Mazen who will introduce the Emerald Initiative Award. Thank you Jennine. The Calumet and Stong Colleges' Emerald Initiative Award for Student Contribution and Engagement is given to a student who continues to go beyond the call of duty always with a positive attitude. The student shows up regularly, brings their ideas forward, is proactive in addressing student program needs, and delivers projects with grace. The recipient of the 2019/2020 Stong College Emerald Initiative Awards for Student Contribution and Engagement are Claudia Guillen Dominguez and Nida Hashmi. I know Nida is not with us unfortunately but Claudia, would you like to say a few words?
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[Claudia Guillen Dominguez gives their speech.]
Hi guys. Thank you so much. Excuse my uniform. I'm so so happy. I'm so glad to see you all there together. I am so grateful for you guys and I'm so grateful for Mazen and Jennine. They've made me feel like as I was part of the team. They actually helped me a lot to basically engage all the Nursing students especially Second Entry but if we were able to actually redirect them to whatever they need, let's say they need some help with exams or tests, we'll direct them to NSTAMP and we basically create a community because being in a Nursing program is very hard but it's hard if you don't have friends around you. So we just create community and it was awesome. Thank you Mazen. Thank you Jennine. Thank you Abdul. Thank you Bayley and thank you for all those beautiful granola bars. Thank you so much.
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[Mazen Hamadeh introduces the recipient for Emerald Initiative Award. The screen shows the names of the recipients.]
Thank you, Claudia. The recipients of the 2020/2021 Stong College Emerald Initiative Award for Student Contribution and Engagement are Parmin Rahimpoor-Marnani and Dorsa Shakeri. Parmin and Dorsa, would you like to say a few words please?
[Parmin Rahimpoor-Marnani gives their speech.]
Dorsa, if it's okay I can go first? So first of all again thank you so so much for this award. Obviously you know this is a clear identification of, you know, that the fact that I'm on the right track in terms of doing what I'm supposed to be doing and to kind of like back it up in terms of the award I specifically remember that, you know, I recently had started my role as a coursework coordinator and I came across a quote that I had to find for one of the slides that we were making saying if your actions and if your actions inspire others to dream more learn more and do more and become more you are a leader by John Quincy Adams who was a previous US President as a side note, but you know, that was the moment that really hit me. That you know, you are a peer leader. You're you know, working for serving the community as you always visioned and along the way. I really want to thank Bayley Tepperman, Agata Stypka, and you, Mazen and Jennine for continuing to believe in us. For continuing to inspire us to continue doing better and I also want to thank all my fellow students in KAHSSO specifically for continuing to again inspire me to be stronger and better than before and thank you so much for this award. It just shows that I'm on the right track and I should keep on going. Thank you all.
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[Dorsa Shakeri gives their speech.]
Thank you guys. I just want to say I feel very honored to be selected as one of the recipients of this award. I know we have a lot of great peer leaders working with us and it's really an amazing thing that we have these awards to appreciate all of them and I want to say even though this past year was difficult, everything was remote. Through my involvement I really felt part of the community when I was working with the colleges and I'm really grateful for all the opportunities that I was given because I really grew as a person and as a peer leader looking back when I started my first year, little roles here and there in the Colleges and I'm amazed how long I've come and how much students support each other and I look forward to the staff and all the other peer leaders working together in the future to continue to bring the Colleges' mission and vision to life.
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[Jennine Rawana introduces the Ruby Impact Award. The screen shows the names of the recipients.]
Thank you Dorsa. Moving on to our next awards. The Calumet and Stong Colleges' Ruby Impact Award for Student Leadership and Community Building. So this award celebrates students for their collaborative spirit that has ensured that whatever they do makes a positive difference in the lives of their fellow peers or their local community. These students achieved significant milestones over more than a year and have helped the colleges achieve their vision.
The recipients of the 2019/2020 Calumet College Ruby Impact Award for Student Leadership and Community Building are Elizabeth German and Parisa Sharif-Esfahani. Unfortunately they're not here with us tonight but we celebrate their contributions together. I pass it to Mazen for the Stong College Ruby Impact Awards.
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[Mazen Hamadeh introduces the Stong College Ruby Impact Award.]
Thank you. The recipients of the 2019/2020 Stong College Ruby Impact Award for Student Leadership and Community Building are Aly Fawzy, Rodolfo D. Lastimosa Jr., and Amin Hatamnejad. Could we have Rodolfo and Amin say a couple of words? I'm not sure if Aly is with us. If he is then he can also say a couple of words. Please go ahead.
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[Rodolfo D. Lastimosa Jr. gives their speech.]
Okay I'll go ahead. Good evening everyone. First let me introduce myself. My name is Rodolfo D. Lastimosa Jr. and I am an alumnus of York University. I graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing for International Educated Nurses Program class of October 2020. Im extremely honored to be receiving such an important award, the Stong College Ruby Impact Award for Student Leadership and Community Building. I am earnestly grateful for the recognition I have received for my contribution to the Stong College and York University students because I am very sure that every other nominee for this award was incapable if not more of winning this award. Although we have faced several challenges on our way to come up with this event due to the pandemic crisis but each one of us has only strengthened to make the person that we are today, a thorough professional who knows exactly what we want. Someone who sets eyes on a goal and does not lose sight of it unless it is achieved. Winning this award would not have been possible without the inspiration I have received from my senior and my colleagues for whom I have deepest respect and from whom I have derived the strength to challenge myself and perform better each day namely the former President of NSAY. When I first started that NSAY organization which is Miss Camilla Randall and the Vice
President of NSAY Miss Katie Shum and to former President of NSTAMP Miss Angelina Batac
and the Vice President of NSTAMP Miss Myja Hogendoorn and also executive and members of NSTAMP. I sincerely thank also to the Head of Stong College Mr. Mazen Hamadeh and the Head of Calumet College, Jennine Rawana, for helping me reach a stage where I can probably hold up with this award as a mark of my achievement. I also promise to only get better at my career now as a nurse so that you can see more me as such a worth. Thank you.
You know, when I started at York University I first received my first award as a peer leader certificate and I was sitting there and listening to the different awards of these Gem awards and I was at that time, I was thinking of myself. I envisioned myself that someday I'll be one of those recipients of those awards and speaking to thank everyone for this award but now I am here. So when you sometimes when you set your eyes on something, sometimes it becomes into reality but thank you again to all the staff of the Stong and Calumet College.
On a closing note all I want to tell each of one of you present here today is that you should never give up never give up even if you are convinced that it's all over, it's not over unless you want it to be. Again I'm very pleased to have received this award. I also dedicate this award to all my family in the Philippines which I haven't seen for almost 10 years now because of circumstances but I really want to see them hopefully next year. Thank you for your for your choice and for your trust in me. Thank you very much again and have a good evening everyone.
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[Amin Hatamnejad gives their speech.]
Amin, would you like to go ahead? Yeah absolutely. So I think a lot of my colleagues at this point have already said what I wanted to say, you know, my journey through York started with the Calumet and Stong Colleges and you know, my development who I am today and hopefully who I will be three years from now. You know, has all shaped through my undergraduate years like Calumet and Stong Colleges I had the opportunity and truly the privilege to meet a lot of great staff who I would take me five ten minutes to miss all of them but a huge thank you to all of them Cody, Abdul, Bayley, Agata, Mazen, and Jennine.
My very first day at YOD and I, you know, I was just taken in by how much work it really takes for the Colleges and for the student success programs. Additionally to that, you know, a huge thank you to everyone at KAHSSO through my years from 2018 till now I had the opportunity to serve on the executive.
I was the elected President and really got the chance to learn from my colleagues and be able to implement some visions with them. So a huge thank you to them and just on a closing note, I just want to thank my parents, my friends, and my family and for supporting me through my journey and that hopefully I will, you know, as I said before in many of my trainings my journey hasn't ended with York yet and I will be back at some capacity but yeah for now a huge thank you to everyone and I will see you, folks, at some point in the near future. Thanks Mazen, thanks Jennine, thanks everyone.
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[Jennine Rawana introduces the Calumet College Ruby Impact Award.]
Thank you Amin. And now, the recipient of the 2020/2021 Calumet College Ruby Impact Award for Student Leadership and Community Building is Karen Rofaeel. So I invite Karen to say a few words.
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[Karen Rofaeel gives their speech.]
Thank you so much, Jennine. First, I'd like to say congratulations to all of my fellow award winners today. My airpods just fell out, sorry. I'd also like to express my gratitude to the Colleges for providing me with all the opportunities to be engaged and serve this amazing community. Thank you to all the staff and faculty; Mazen, Jennine, Cynthia, Agata, Bailey, Abdul, Peter, everyone else. You really provided me with constant support and mentorship and really strengthened my leadership skills.
And finally, I really need to shout out my UPSA family as well, for believing in my ideas and in my leadership for the past two years. Being involved in the colleges has really given me so many great memories and skills, and I'm gonna carry these with me wherever life takes me. I'm especially looking forward to being back in the community as an alumni. So, thank you again for the award.
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[Mazen Hamadeh introduces the recipient for Stong College Ruby Impact Award.]
The recipient of the 2020/2021 Stong College Ruby Impact Award for Student Leadership and Community Building is Mohamed Elsayed. Mohamed, would you like to say something again?
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[Mohamed Elsayed Elgobashy gives their speech.]
So, I would like to restate my thanks to all the college staff, volunteers, peer leaders; just
restate my thanks to Mazen and Jennine for all of their support again. I remember during York Orientation Day, sort of walking around quite stressed out... all these people, you know, going to university it's quite different from high school. In high school, you're walking around, you can sort of... you know everyone in a couple of days. University it's like a whole lot of people and you don't know that many people. But then you get to know people gradually, and you get to interact, and you get to look at the many many opportunities that are available. So I would like to you know say that, without the support of each and every person in KAHSSO, Bailey, Agata, Abdul, Mazen and Jennine and all the college staff and peer leaders, this would not be possible. The support of my family, the support of anyone who sort of helped me throughout this journey. Again, thank you everyone and I really appreciate the award- both awards, actually, from Stong College. Thank you, everyone. Thank you.
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[Jennine Rawana introduces the Diamond Legacy Award.]
Okay, the Calumet and Stong College's Diamond Legacy Award for Significant Community Contribution, Enduring Change, and Inspiring Vision. So, this award recognizes a graduating student who has left an enduring legacy in their college, with respect to their leadership accomplishments and lasting contributions, the vision of the college. The student has left an indelible impact empowering others, and has made a significant difference in the community that will continue to thrive and succeed despite their actions as they go forward into the next stage of their career.
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[Mazen Hamadeh introduces the recipient of Stong College Diamond Legacy Award.]
I will pass it to Mazen who will say the Stong College Diamond Legacy Award. Thank you, Jennine. The recipient of the 2019/2020 Stong College Diamond Legacy Award for Significant Community Contribution, Enduring Change, and Inspiring Vision is Angelina Batac. Angelina, would you like to say a word, please?
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[Angelina Batac gives their speech.]
Alright, I just wanted to start off by saying thank you so much for choosing me as one of the recipients for these awards, and recognizing all my efforts. It just means a lot to me, and I'm truly grateful since there's so many amazing students who've made a large contribution to York University. I just wanted to thank Agata, Mazen, Bailey, Jennine, Abdul and Peter and everyone from the College of Calumet and Stong College for all the support over the past two years. I'm just truly grateful for your encouragement, knowledge and moral support. You've really helped me through various projects by providing me your guidance. Thank you to all the NSTAMP and peer leaders at Calumet and Stong Colleges. Having the opportunity to have different roles at Calumet and Stong Colleges really helped me transform to the nurse I want to be today, and I'm just so happy that NSTAMP has continued to create more leadership opportunities to help future nurses develop their professional development prior to coming into the field. This award will just remind me of all the amazing memories I created at York University. So, thank you everyone at Calumet and Stong Colleges. Thank you, Angelina.
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[Jennine Rawana introduces the recipient of Calumet College Diamond Legacy Award.]
And now, for our very last award for the evening, the recipient of the 2020/2021 Calumet College Diamond Legacy Award for Significant Community Contribution, Enduring Change, and Inspiring Vision is Fara Seddigh. Fara, I'd like to invite you to say a few words.
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[Fara Seddigh gives their speech.]
Thank you so much, Jennine. Well, first of all, I want to say what Rodolfo said is true; in 2019, I attended my first award ceremony as a peer tutor, and I thought to myself like "Oh, will I ever get one of those cool gem awards?" And today, that became true! So, thank you so much to everyone, thank you to the Colleges for this recognition. I'd also like to say that I obviously didn't achieve this award independently, but rather because of the support of the people in my life. My exceptional team at UPSA who worked so hard to enable the club and myself to leave an impact on students lives; the college heads, staff, and faculty, who are always there for us every step of the way; and of course, my lovely family, especially my mom, who has spent her entire life making sure that I get to have opportunities like this one. Being involved in York and the Colleges has positively affected me in every aspect, and I'm really beyond grateful to have been able to reciprocate it in some way. Thank you so much.
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[Jennine Rawana] Thank you, everybody. So that wraps up the end of our closing ceremony and we'll start with Mazen to say a few closing words.
[Mazen Hamadeh] Thank you, Jennine. So as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. This quote is by Marianne Williamson, who is an author, a spiritual leader, and a political activist. I, for one, think all of you are lights that shine to show the way for future generations. They will follow in your footsteps, and they will definitely be standing on the shoulders of giants. Thank you for your contributions, and I hope your future contributions in society and to York University, to Faculty of Health, and to Calumet and Stong Colleges eclipse your past contributions.
[Jennine Rawana] I'd also like to say, I know it's been a challenging year to pivot to the pandemic, and despite the challenges, we've had amazing peer leaders who have stepped up both during the 2019 and 2020 academic years. So, we cannot thank you enough for your continued contributions to Colleges. To those who are graduating, or perhaps moving on to new positions, I hope that you stay; we are still your community, we're here to serve you and to support you as you move forward to the next stages of your degrees. And I also want to thank everybody for taking the time this evening during the summer to spend a few hours with us, celebrating our successes as well.
I believe there's one more slide that thanks our staff, so we also want to thank our Calumet and Stong Colleges' staff as well as Kaye and Waziha and Cynthia who have contributed to creating a wonderful award tonight. There we go. Rob Bishop and Annalissa Crisostomo, Cynthia Goodfellow; Cynthia, our hats off to you for pulling this off together. I know it's been challenging at times, but here we are. Abdul Mohammed, Agata Stypka, and Bailey Tepperman.
We also want to thank our peer leaders who emceed and contributed to reading the names. We're on the next slide, but also want to thank Paul McDonald who is our Dean of the Faculty of Health for continuing to contribute and support Calumet and Stong Colleges and all that we do. Dr. Judy MacDonnell, our Associate Dean for Students, thank you very much for all your contributions and your role as Associate Dean to supporting both Mazen and myself and our staff and the students and the Faculty of Health Student Success Council, which is a group of undergrad program directors, faculty advisors, student club presidents, and executive members and our college staff, who make decisions around the colleges. Kaye and Waziha, thank you very much for preparation of all the materials, right to the nth hour to create lovely slides and our program brochures and all that you do to support the communications of the Colleges.
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[Mazen Hamadeh] For those who would like to stay behind for an informal chat, please stay, we will turn the recording off, but thank you very much for coming.
[Jennine Rawana] I do think there's one request for one photo.
[Cynthia Goodfellow] That's correct, yes. So I just wanted to thank everyone, and I just wanted to let everyone know we do have programs for 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. We will circulate those later, we just want to make a few little adjustments to them make sure they're perfect for you. As well, if you're interested, we will make the slides available to you if you would like those as well. We'd like to end the evening with a group photo, so if you would like to be part of the photo, please do turn your camera on; if not, we hope you've enjoyed your time together and we look forward to seeing you again soon, and hopefully in person.
[End of recording.]