to the recipients of the

ere were 114 exceptional graduates from ’s 24 public nominated for this important award, which recognizes their achievements in and throughout the world.

Chief Georjann Morriseau Recent Graduate Confederation Chief Georjann Morriseau was instrumental in formalizing the Winners: governance development network that helps First Nation commu- nities across Ontario with governance strategic planning. In April 2013, she became the youngest person to be elected chief of Fort William First Nation. She was elected as chief after sitting one term as a councillor.

Candice Ekonomakos Capt. (RCN) Rebecca Patterson Recent Graduate Health Sciences Candice Ekonomakos is using her culinary gifts to ght hunger and A decorated ocer, she commands all military medical units from poverty in . She established Cooks with a Mission, which northern Ontario to British Columbia and the Arctic. She oversaw invites junior chefs and established cooks to donate food, the care for the Canadian Forces’ ill and injured during conicts in equipment and time to community kitchens. Currently employed at the Persian Gulf, Croatia, Bosnia and Rwanda. She also led the the prestigious Ritz-Carlton restaurant, she has spoken nationally multinational team that designed a military medical education and internationally about her eorts to help others. system for Afghanistan.

James Forbes Peter van Stralen Technology Business Humber College James Forbes is an award-winning expert in railcar design who has Starting out 25 years ago with just a lawn mower and a trailer, Peter improved the safety and productivity of railway freight cars in North van Stralen is now the CEO of a multi-million-dollar landscape America. He has more than 100 patents in the U.S. and Canada. He franchise brand that has 180 locations across Canada and the recently co-invented a railroad car with steering that works like a United States. He is regularly invited to speak about leadership and pendulum and has the exibility to respond to rails that aren’t personal and professional growth, and is the author of a book on always even or perfectly parallel. leadership principles that can help businesses transform their cultures.

Tibor Madjar Jessica Lynn Whitbread Creative Arts and Design Community Services Sheridan College Tibor Madjar played a leading role in devising Mudbox – 3D Jessica Whitbread is a passionate advocate for the rights of women sculpting software that has created complex visual eects for living with HIV. As global director of the International Community of Oscar-winning lms such as King Kong, Avatar, Life of Pi, and The Women Living with HIV (ICW), she has managed the organization's Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Madjar received a 2014 Academy transfer to Nairobi. She was the youngest and rst queer woman to Award for developing the software, which dramatically reduces the be elected as ICW's chair and founded its rst international chapter amount of time and money it takes to produce complex visual eects. for young women, adolescents and girls.

Nominees:

Algonquin College Collège La Cité Niagara College CAT BARON JANE HAMILTON WILSON LORRIE BAIRD ÉRIC RUEL TARA COLANERI ERIN ANTONELLO TRENT CORREY JON HUDDLE BARB BOLIN EMANUEL THIBAULT WENDELYN JOHNSON ROBERT BRESSAN FRANK DEMIZIO TAYLOR JONES DAVID CAIN DAVE MACIULIS CAITLYN NELSON ELI FATHI STEVE MAI JULIETTE CORDASCO KEVIN REMPEL MARTY SINGLETON SHAWN HICKEY NATASHA MAXWELL ERIC DENOUDEN CHAD HAYTER JOHN ZAMBAKKIDES JERRY POPOWICH JOSHUA JOHN SEE JULIE JENKINS MARCIN MIGDAL Northern College CAROLINE CHARTER Collège Boréal LORI HYGAARD George Brown College TOBIN MILLER RAY ROUSSY DAVID COMMON VALÉRIE BREEN ROBERT KUCHERAN SHANE BUTCHER CHRIS PAINTER FAZAL KHAN FRÉDÉRIC ST-ONGE TRENT OPALOCH KIMBERLY DALEY St. Clair College BRENDA LIBRECZ DANIEL JANETOS COLE CACCIAVILLANI STEVE LINTHWAITE TOM RIEFESEL KIPTON HAWLEY DINO CHIODO MARINA SIU-CHONG KRISTI HADDAD IAN BALL SARAH STEVENSON JOY PEACOCK ALAN DARK KEVIN CAMPBELL SANDIE SIDSWORTH SUE DENOMY Sheridan College MICHAEL LYSKO DAVID SMYTHE JASON FABOK MARCIA FRANKLIN WENDY ABDALLAH PATRICIA MAZZOTTA KEVIN J. COLLINS FARZANA WAHIDY LISA LOUCA JORDAN PRESSEAULT RUSS MONTAGUE DON KOMARECHKA DONALD WEBER St. Lawrence College FRANK PROSIA JACQUES SEGUIN MARLA KURTZ DAN BERGERON ROSE STREETE JON MONTGOMERY JOHN MANCONI KATHY BURRILL MIKE PEGG RAY ADAMYK MATTHEW MORIN LAURA ARNDT CAROLINE CAMERON NICOLE SAULNIER PAUL ARMSTRONG AMANDA ROSE PIOTR MIERZEJEWSKI MAHMUD DHANANI NARINE DAT SOOKRAM CRAIG SIMS SERGEI PETROV EMM GRYNER Humber College KEVIN FORD DANIEL WILLISTON CHAITANYA PETTUKOLA JOE LIBERATORE MARK CAMERON SCOT KEITH DOMENIC SERAFINO MICHELLE PALMER WAAWAATE FOBISTER DON MACVICAR ROBERT THERIAULT KIMBERLEY GREENWOOD

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