Global Ideas Institute Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in the Global South April 8, 2013 ASIAN INSTITUTE at THE MUNK SCHOOL of GLOBAL AFFAIRS Micronutrient deficiencies are a form of malnutrition caused by an insufficient uptake of vitamins and minerals, and are a significant cause of illness and premature death throughout the world. This is particularly true in the developing world. As Sprinkles can help address micronutrient malnutrition, it is of critical importance that we work together to better scale up the supply, distribution, and utilization of the intervention.
— Dr. Stanley Zlotkin Global Ideas Institute
We live in one of the world’s most diverse cities, and we In April, their teams will identify and pitch their preferred are experiencing a time of dramatic change. We see a more approach to scaling up Sprinkles. Th is symposium will take deeply interconnected world, fuelled by technology, with place at the Munk School of Global Aff airs and will feature a momentum enough to change corporations, media, and panel of experts in the health and development fi eld. governments in every country. At the same time, we see deep Th e students’ work has been fully integrated across divisions politically and economically, and an ailing planet. the many fi elds and disciplines involved in such a complex Th e imperatives for a renewed sense of global citizenship problem. Th ey are reading and grappling with every-thing and global engagement are clear and unequivocal. from academic research papers to news clippings, from We know that our best students in their fi nal years sophisticated demographic materials to personal stories of of high school are not being off ered enough opportunities those directly working in the fi eld. Th ey are struggling with in the conventional curriculum to develop those hard and real-world problems through multi-disciplinary lenses. Th ey soft skills that they will need to meet the challenges already are learning about advocacy, empathy, and global citizenship. present in the world. Th ey suff er from this lack of stimu- Th ey, along with their mentors, receive no credit for their lation, and as a country we miss the opportunity to benefi t work, other than the gratifi cation of studying a pressing from their freshness, their technological expertise, their problem that has not yet been resolved, together generating passion, and their global-mindedness. Students are our solutions that can potentially better the lives of hundreds future leaders and we would do well by ensuring that they of millions in the world’s “bottom billion.” engage their world in intellectually imaginative ways. Th e University of Toronto Schools and the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Aff airs have jointly planned a symposium for motivated, self-selected high school students, to take place in April 2013. Th e symposium will be the culm- ination of over six months of organized group study, research, and continual dialogue. Toronto students from twelve schools, in grades eleven and twelve, are studying and discussing the challenges and opportunities of innovating and scaling up health technologies in the Global South. Th ey have benefi ted from a series of lectures and interactive seminars with the world’s leading scholars of health and development. Th is year’s challenge will focus on food insecurity and malnutrition in the Global South. In particular, students will create a strategy to scale up the supply and distribution of Sprinkles, sachets of micronutrient powder that prevent and treat micronutrient defi ciencies. Every year micro- nutrient defi ciencies contribute signifi cantly to poverty, illnesses, and premature deaths, particularly among children and other vulnerable groups in the Global South. Addressing this issue is therefore of critical importance. Working in teams and led by mentors from the University of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the students work in a distributed learning model to share readings and conduct online and face-to-face discussions.
3 In its third year now, the Global Ideas Institute (GII) has continued to expand its reach in the Greater Toronto Area, bringing together ever more students from around the city to contemplate pressing global challenges and our eff orts to resolve them. In 2011, GII participants tackled the challenge of replicating the Aravind Eye Hospital. Last year, the GII focused on reinventing the toilet. Th is year, students involved with the GII are looking at ways in which we can scale up Sprinkles, a malnutrition intervention. Under the pioneering leadership of Dr. Stanley Zlotkin, Chief of Global Child Health at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and inventor of Sprinkles, GII participants have learned about micronutrient powders and various programs designed to produce, distribute, and encourage the use of Welcome these supplements in many parts of the developing world. Th e challenge, however, is to devise new ways to ensure that local models and local to the success stories are eff ectively scaled up so that the many many more children who would benefi t from such interventions in fact do. Global Ideas Impact is front-and-centre at the GII. But more specifi cally, we are interested in impact in places far away and for people whom we have Institute never met. In other words, the GII looks to inculcate the value of “other- regarding” concern: the desire and ability to have an impact on people and places distant from our everyday lives here in Canada. Our aim is to ensure that the next generation of Canadian leaders are in fact global leaders, who have the capacities to imagine the lives of those less fortu- nate, to not take for granted the opportunities we have here, and to translate what we know here to have a positive impact elsewhere. As such, the core of this year’s GII is this idea of “scaling up.” Perusing the daily news, blogs, and reports of global NGOs, we constantly hear of great ideas in health, education, employment, and empowerment being implemented in particular cities, villages, or slums. And yet, we also know that it is very diffi cult to transform those great local ideas into global solutions. We still know so little about how to scale up implementation in order for local solutions to have a truly global impact. Scholars and students at the University of Toronto are working on these diffi cult challenges at the moment. We are trying to fi gure out ways to bring to scale great ideas. And we have benefi ted enormously from the contributions and enthusi- Asian Institute at the University asm of GII participants. of Toronto Impact and scale — those are our challenges this year. High school teachers have invested their time, energy, and knowledge to direct the Munk School of Global Aff airs students. U of T mentors from the Asian Institute, OISE, the Munk 1 Devonshire Place, School, and across campus have worked very hard to facilitate discussion Room 227n and debate. Th e management team of this year’s GII has been absolutely Toronto, on m5s 3k7 superlative. And the participants have inspired all of us with their smarts, drive, t 416 946 8996 intellect, empathy, and leadership. Congratulations to everyone involved f 416 946 8838 with the 2012 – 2013 Global Ideas Institute. Your extraordinary qualities e [email protected] never cease to amaze me and, indeed, leave me optimistic that the w www.utoronto.ca/ai mistakes and oversights of our past can and will be resolved with your solutions for the future.
Joseph Wong Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Democratization, Health, and Development Director, Asian Institute
4 Th e University of Toronto Schools (UTS), an affi liated secondary school of the University of Toronto and a partner of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Aff airs, strives to involve intellectually curious secondary school students with complex global problems. Th rough the Global Ideas Institute, senior students in high schools across the Greater Toronto Area have an opportunity to parallel the work of a dynamic interdisciplinary team of university researchers tackling some of the most intransigent health challenges threatening the well-being of people globally. Th is year, the prevalence of childhood malnutrition and its devastating conse- quences provided the background for exploring how the use of micronutri- ent additives could be scaled up to eff ectively mitigate the impact of food scarcity. It is tremendously exciting for students to hear fi rsthand how Message international experts from diff erent disciplines across the university community are working together to generate solutions to these problems. from the Students involved in the Global Ideas Institute have the unique opportu- nity to listen to researchers share their insights and frustrations. Together University the students and the researchers question assumptions and inquire into alternative perspectives and pathways. Th rough monthly presentations by of Toronto members of the research team, students are provided with vantage points from which to witness the course of innovation in action and indeed the Schools opportunity to become active partners in this process. Over sixty students from thirteen public and independent schools across the GTA accepted the challenge of preparing an “integrated solution” to scale up Sprinkles, a micronutrient powder developed by Dr. Stanley Zlotkin. Th e students worked in school-based teams, guided by university students and teacher candidates to develop creative and comprehensive solutions, which they communicated through academic posters and short presentations. Each student group has the opportunity to pitch its solution to the team of global innovators. Feedback from peers and experts extends the learning experience and encourages further inquiry and deeper thinking! Students become active participants in the generation of solutions to real-world challenges. Th eir ideas feed the research process. Th e Global Ideas Institute off ers students a unique opportunity to experi- ence the essence of the university — research and innovation in action.
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Symposium Schedule
8:00 am – 9:00 am 10:30 am – 10:45 am 2:20 pm – 3:20 pm
Registration and Continental Break Experts Weigh In Breakfast on Student Proposals
Global Ideas Institute Poster 10:45 am – 12:00 pm Stanley H. Zlotkin, CM, MD, PhD, Exhibition (set up in cloisters) Student Approaches to the FRCPC (Chief, Global Child Health, Challenge of Food Insecurity and The Hospital for Sick Children; 9:00 am – 9:15 am Malnutrition in the Developing Professor, Nutritional Sciences and World Paediatrics, University of Toronto) Welcome Joseph Wong Proposal Presentations The Honourable Michael H. Wilson (Professor of Political Science and » Round 2 (Chancellor, University of Toronto) Canada Research Chair in Democrati- St. Clement’s School zation, Health, and Development; Thornlea Secondary School Opening Remarks Director, Asian Institute) University of Toronto Schools Joseph Wong Ursula Franklin Academy Yeleka Barrett (Professor of Political Science and The York School (Venture Representative, Canada Research Chair in Democrati- Ashoka Canada) zation, Health, and Development; 12:00 pm – 12:35 pm Director, Asian Institute) 3:20 pm – 3:50 pm Lunch Tear Down Poster Exhibition 9:15 am – 10:30 am (in cloisters) 12:35 pm – 2:00 pm Student Approaches to the Walk up the street to the Munk Poster Exhibition (in cloisters) Challenge of Food Insecurity and Observatory Malnutrition in the Developing Informal pitches by students World 3:50 pm – 4:20 pm Proposal Presentations 2:00 pm – 2:20 pm Closing Ceremony » Round 1 Keynote Address The Bishop Strachan School Rosemary Evans Bloor Collegiate Institute Janice Gross Stein (Principal, University of Toronto Branksome Hall (Belzberg Professor of Confl ict Schools) Havergal College Management and Negotiation; Certificate Ceremony Pickering College Director, Munk School of Global Aff airs; Professor of Political Science) Led by Carmen Ho (Global Ideas Institute Manager; PhD Student, University of Toronto) and Rosemary Evans
4:20 pm – 5:20 pm
Reception
Symposium Locations 8:00 – 3:50 Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 3:50 – 5:20 Munk Observatory Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place 315 Bloor Street West
12 Speakers and Discussants
Rosemary Evans Yeleka Barrett Janice Gross Stein
Rosemary Evans is the principal of Yeleka has been with Ashoka Canada Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg University of Toronto Schools. She since 2011, beginning fi rst in an admin- Professor of Confl ict Management in received her BA in history from the istrative capacity, she now leads the the Department of Political Science University of Western Ontario and her search and selection of Ashoka Fellows and the Director of the Munk School MA, BEd, and MBA from the University in Canada. Prior to Ashoka, Yeleka of Global Aff airs at the University of of Toronto. She served as a teacher, worked for Scotiabank in their wealth Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal department head, and subject coordina- management division. Yeleka holds a Society of Canada and a member of tor for the Peel Board of Education, and BA in Kinesiology from the University the Order of Canada and the Order of later as a vice-principal in the former of Western Ontario, and a BASc in Ontario. Her most recent publications East York Board of Education. During Public Health from Ryerson University. include Networks of Knowledge: Innovation her time as an instructor at the Initial Yeleka has extensive volunteer experi- in International Learning (2000); The Cult Teacher Education Program at OISE, ence, including spending 2 months of Effi ciency (2001); and Street Protests and Rosemary was the recipient of a Teach- in Zanzibar, Tanzania with Youth Fantasy Parks (2001). She is a contributor ing Excellence Award. She later accepted Challenge International working with to Canada by Picasso (2006) and the co- the role of Academic Head at Branksome local community based organizations on, author of The Unexpected War: Canada in Hall, where she oversaw the implemen- youth employment, peer education and Kandahar (2007). She was the Massey tation of the International Baccalaureate HIV/AIDS awareness and stigma reduc- Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. Programs from junior kindergarten to tion campaigns. Yeleka also completed She was awarded the Molson Prize by grade twelve. Rosemary is the author of a CIDA internship as a Capacity Building the Canada Council for an outstanding a number of history textbooks, and has Offi cer in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania where contribution by a social scientist to given presentations locally and interna- she spent 7 months working to integrate public debate. She is an Honorary tionally on topics such as assessment and provide support for projects run by Foreign Member of the American and evaluation, critical thinking and the charity: Canadian Support of Rural Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has inquiry based learning, and global African Initiatives (CSRAI). Yeleka also been awarded Honorary Doctorate of education. served as a member of the Board of Laws by the University of Alberta, the Directors and Project Committee Chair University of Cape Breton, McMaster for CSRAI until 2012. Yeleka is passionate University, and Hebrew University. about community health development and innovative solutions to health care.
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Th e Honourable Joseph Wong Stanley Zlotkin Michael H. Wilson Joseph Wong is Professor of Political Stanley Zlotkin received his medical Science and Canada Research Chair training at McMaster University and Th e Honourable Michael H. Wilson, in Democratization, Health, and McGill University and obtained a PhD in P.C., C.C., LL.D., is 33rd Chancellor of Development at the University of Nutrition from the University of Toronto. the University of Toronto and Chairman Toronto, where he is also the Director He has worked as a clinician-nutritionist of Barclays Capital Canada Inc. In his of the Asian Institute at the Munk and research scientist at Th e Hospital for early career, he worked as an investment School of Global Aff airs. In addition to Sick Children since 1980. He is currently banking executive. Mr. Wilson was dozens of journal articles and contribu- a Professor in the Departments of elected to the House of Commons in 1979, tions to scholarly volumes, Wong has Paediatrics and Nutritional Sciences and subsequently held various positions published three books: Betting on at the University of Toronto, a senior in federal government, including Min- Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s scientist in the Research Institute of ister of Finance, Minister of Industry, Developmental State (Cornell University Th e Hospital for Sick Children, Medical Science and Technology, and Minister Press, 2011); Healthy Democracies: Welfare Director of Nutrition Support at Th e for International Trade. He served as Politics in Taiwan and South Korea (Cornell Hospital for Sick Children, and Head Canada’s 22nd Ambassador to the United University Press, 2004); and, with of the Division of Gastroenterology and States of America between 2006 and 2009. Edward Friedman, Political Transitions Nutrition at the Hospital. Zlotkin is the Chancellor Wilson has been active in a in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose inventor of Sprinkles, which eff ectively number of professional and community (Routledge, 2008). His current research treats the estimated two-out-of-three organizations, including NeuroScience focuses on poverty, invisibility, innova- children in developing countries who Canada Partnership, the Centre for tion, and health welfare in the Global suff er from vitamin and mineral Addiction and Mental Health, the South. Wong has been a visiting defi ciencies. In 1991 he made his fi rst Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian researcher and fellow at Oxford, Harvard, trip to Mongolia to observe his product Council for Public-Private Partnerships, and Seoul National University, among at work. He witnessed the physical and the Canadian Coalition for Good Govern- others. He was elected Senior Member emotional change in children, who ance, and the Canadian Institutes of of St. Antony’s College, University of transformed from lethargic and distant Health Research, and has received Oxford. to talkative and full of energy. Th is trip numerous awards for his work in these reconfi rmed his vision and mission, and fi elds, as well as from the Conference he returned to perfect the production Board of Canada, the Public Policy Forum, and design the accompanying distribu- and the Rotman School of Management. tion and spread strategy. He recently He is a Companion of the Order of Canada received the H.J. Heinz Humanitarian and holds honorary degrees from the Award for his international eff orts University of Toronto, York University, related to micronutrient defi ciencies. Trinity College at the University of Toronto, and the Royal Military College of Canada.
14 The participants have inspired all of us with their smarts, drive, intellect, empathy, and leadership. Congratulations to everyone involved with the 2012 – 2013 Global Ideas Institute. Your extraordinary qualities never cease to amaze me and, indeed, leave me optimistic that the mistakes and oversights of our past can and will be resolved with your solutions for the future.
— Joseph Wong
15 Organizing Committee
Bev Bradley Andrew Do Allison Carroll Bev Bradley is a third-year PhD Andrew Do is a first-year graduate Goldman student in the Department of Chemical student at the University of Toronto’s Engineering and Applied Chemistry, School of Public Policy and Governance Allison Carroll Goldman is a PhD and holds an NSERC Canada Graduate (SPPG), pursuing a Master of Public student at the University of Toronto, Scholarship for doctoral studies. As Policy. He is currently one of the mentor coord- studying Political Science. She focuses a member of the Centre for Global inators for the Global Ideas Institute. on comparative political economics of Engineering (CGEN), Bev’s research aims Previously, he was a mentor and research China and India, looking specifi cally to improve medical oxygen delivery assistant for the GII. Andrew has always at the sources of innovation in these systems for hospitals in low-income been interested in issues of international economies. Allison has spent time countries. Oxygen is an essential development. Specifi cally, he is inter- in both China and India and speaks medicine for treating illnesses such ested in alternative models of service Mandarin. She holds a BA from the as childhood pneumonia, which is delivery, public-private partnerships, University of Pennsylvania, where the leading cause of death in children and civilian-military relations. He has she studied the political economics worldwide. Her country of focus is Th e been involved with a variety of initia- of development. Gambia, West Africa; she has spent tives designed to engage students in over a year living and doing research in dialogue on issues of international this country since 2009. Before joining development. In addition to being CGEN, Bev completed a BASc in Systems involved with the Global Ideas Institute, Design Engineering at the University Andrew has also been responsible for of Waterloo (2006) and an MASc in helping to found the University of Biomedical Engineering at Carleton Toronto Model United Nations, a high University (2008). Bev has worked in school simulation of the United Nations, several other healthcare and research where he is currently an advisor. Aside settings, including the Children’s from international development, Andrew Hospital of Eastern Ontario, the Grand enjoys reading, writing snarky semi- River Regional Cancer Centre, and the autobiographical essays, and playing Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. video games. Bev was a mentor for the 2011 – 2012 Global Ideas Institute, was on the organizing committee for the Social Change and Youth Leadership Confer- ence at U of T in 2012, and has been a member of Engineers Without Borders since 2003. Bev enjoys travelling, volley- ball, and yoga.
16 Carmen Ho Zachary Prong
Carmen Ho is the Manager of this year’s Zachary Prong is a second-year under- Global Ideas Institute on food insecurity graduate student pursuing a degree in and malnutrition in the Global South. contemporary Asian studies and social She is a PhD student in the University of anthropology. His primary area of Toronto’s department of Political Science interest is political economy in China and is the Co-Chair of the Interdisciplin- and Southeast Asia. Before moving to ary Society for International Develop- Toronto he lived and worked in China ment (ISID). Her doctoral research for several years as an English teacher. focuses on sustainable solutions to food He plans on returning to China for insecurity and poverty in low- and a year in the summer of 2013 to study middle-income countries. She holds Mandarin. In addition to working an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of with the Global Ideas Institute, Zac is Business and an MSc in International currently an executive member with Public Policy from University College the INDePth Conference (Interrogating London (UCL), and has studied on Notions of Development and Progress), exchange at the National University an annual conference organized by of Singapore. She also has experience students that explores development as an Economic Development Offi cer issues in Asia. Th e focus of this year’s in the Philippines, working to scale conference is China. When not studying up sustainable rice production on a or working, most of his free time is CIDA-funded project, and as a Local Food spent playing with his son Oliver or Procurement Assistant with Parkdale’s listening to music. West End Food Co-op, supporting com- munity initiatives to improve access to food.
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Crystal Bennett Stacey Bocknek Anupam Chaudhri
Crystal Bennett is currently pursuing Stacey Bocknek is a Master of Global Anupam Chaudhri is a third-year a Bachelor of Education at OISE. She Aff airs student at the Munk School undergraduate student working towards graduated with a Bachelor of Arts of Global Aff airs specializing in World a degree in international relations and (Honours) from Laurentian University, Markets and Economy. She completed a contemporary Asian studies. She has where she was on the Dean’s List and Bachelor of Commerce in International pursued additional interests in develop- studied English with a minor in social Management from the University ment and public policy through her sciences. She chose English because she of Ottawa, and is passionate about summer 2012 fi eldwork in Central Java, loves to read. She is hoping to become international trade and diplomacy, Indonesia, where she studied booming a high school English teacher and social entrepreneurship, and how they rural economies and the origins of remove the dread of essay writing, are able to foster economic development wealth and poverty within them. Follow- hopefully making it so students want around the world. Stacey has also ing her fi eldwork, she completed an to write more, instead of struggling worked at the North Atlantic Treaty internship with Transparency Inter- to develop their ideas on paper. Organisation (NATO) in Brussels, the national in Jakarta, helping prepare a Education and learning have always Permanent Canadian Delegation to report on anti-corruption best practices been central in her life. Knowing she UNESCO in Paris, the Department of in Asia. Currently she is the Vice- wanted to become a teacher from the Foreign Aff airs and International Trade, President of Research and Develop- age of eight, she was involved with and Industry Canada’s Small Business ment for the 2013 INDePth Conference book clubs and tutored other students and Tourism Directorate in Ottawa. on China. INDePth examines a new growing up. She also has a minor country as a development case study passion for social activism, and has each year. Off campus, she has been been a part of a few protests while at highly involved with the Neighbourhood Laurentian University, including the Centre of Toronto, taking a leadership Occupy Movement (the group formed role in several youth organizations in Barrie) and a protest against hiking dedicated to providing accessible services tuition costs in Ontario. to underprivileged communities. Anupam is serving her second term as the Youth Programs Offi cer on the Neighbourhood Centre Board of Directors. Following graduation, she plans to pursue further education and complete more fi eldwork.
18 Michael Cienello Hormuz Dadabhoy Michelle Forrester
Michael Cienello is a fi rst-year graduate Hormuz Dadabhoy was born and Michelle Forrester is a teacher candi- student in the Master of Global Aff airs brought up in Bombay, India. He moved date at the Ontario Institute for Studies program, specializing in International to Canada in 2008 for his fi nal years in Education. She is preparing to teach Capital Markets. He completed his of high school. His lifelong interest in at the intermediate / senior level. Prior undergraduate degree at Western radio plays led him to work as a radio to attending the University of Toronto, University, where he majored in actor for the BBC in 2006. Hormuz is she obtained her Combined Honours political science and minored in a second-year undergraduate student Degree in sociology and world religions economics. His academic interests studying Asia-Pacifi c studies, environ- at McMaster University, where she include economic development and mental biology, and semiotic anthropol- made the Dean’s List for 2010 – 2011. social entrepreneurship. Last summer ogy. Th rough his studies, Hormuz hopes Michelle has volunteered both locally he was selected for the role of Parks to both pursue his long-held passions and overseas. Locally, she has been a Canada Youth Ambassador for the Duke and develop new interests as he seeks mentor for at-risk youth, a soccer coach, and Duchess of Cambridge, in which fresh ways to understand the rapidly and a teacher’s assistant. She volun- he helped Parks Canada create new changing world. teered with homeless people at the strategies and programs to connect Homeless World Cup in Milan, Italy, young people across the country to where she was a team guide for the Canada’s natural and cultural heritage. Austrian team. She has volunteered for Th is summer he will be heading to Zachary Fanni Habitat for Humanity in Little Rock and Africa to work with Engineers Without Zachary Fanni is currently complet- New Orleans. During the New Orleans Borders on projects that focus on ing a Bachelor of Education at OISE, trip, she was an assistant leader for the systemic change to help develop with a focus on global citizenship McMaster University Student Success sustainable markets and alleviate and sustainable development. He has Centre. In 2011, she spent a month in poverty. Beyond work and school, a Master of Arts from the University Swaziland volunteering with Bulembu Michael is also a contributing writer of Western Ontario, where he was International as a teacher’s assistant with the Global Summitry Project nominated for a Teaching Assistant in their pre-primary school and as an and an avid hockey fan, and has an Award. While completing his HBA offi ce assistant in their general offi ce. unhealthy obsession with YouTube. from the University of Toronto, Zachary More recently, she spent part of her Fun fact: last summer he had the spent time in Uganda developing and summer in Peru with Heart-Links pleasure of working on the Obama directing summer camp programs for helping a community build a safe campaign in North Carolina. children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic, and sustainable play space. and he hopes to continue with his involvement in development programs.
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Kaitlyn Green were victims of landmines. He hopes to In the summers, Nessa works in become a secondary school teacher next leadership development, taking youth Kaitlyn Green is currently pursuing school year and is looking forward to a on two-week kayak, hike, and canoe a Bachelor of Education at OISE. She career as an educator. expeditions in the wilderness of British completed a Master of Arts in medieval Columbia. Her involvement in the Global studies at the University of Toronto in Ideas Institute thus merges both her the spring of 2012. Prior to her studies interest in health and her passion for in Toronto, Kaitlyn fi nished a Bachelor Shantha Karthigesu working with youth. After she fi nishes of Arts in history, English, and classics Shantha Karthigesu is enrolled in the at the University of Toronto, Nessa is at Mount Allison University in New Bachelor of Education program at OISE. hoping to pursue a graduate degree in Brunswick. Kaitlyn grew up in a very After nearly eight years of teaching at public policy or global health. rural area of New Brunswick, but has the college / university level she decided been living in Toronto for the past two to follow her dreams of becoming a years. She hopes to eventually become high school teacher. She completed Justin Keung a teacher in Ontario, and would like to her undergraduate degree in Australia, be able to coach diff erent high school majoring in anatomy and human Justin Keung has a background in teams. Kaitlyn has spent time volunteer- biology and psychology. Prior to that, science and engineering. He is pres- ing with students and working with she worked for a number of years in ently an OISE student, studying to them on reading and study skills, and Sri Lanka as a multilingual broadcast be a high school teacher, where he is has done some course-specifi c tutoring. journalist. Just before enrolling in the learning to motivate students to save Her passions include education, working BEd program, Shantha graduated with the world while doing what they love. with youth, and many diff erent sports a Master of Science in medical anthro- He would like to help students appreci- and athletic activities. Kaitlyn enjoys pology from the University of Toronto. ate the beauty in nature through the playing basketball, volleyball, and Her research examined infant feeding lenses of physics and mathematics. soccer, as well as running and snow- practices among South Asian mothers boarding as often as she can. in Toronto. She has conducted research on many diff erent areas in maternal and infant / child health in the past, includ- Sarah Misu Lee Gordon Grisé ing the mother-to-child-transmission Sarah Misu Lee is a Master of Global of HIV through breast milk. Her newest Aff airs candidate for 2014. She is currently Gordon Grisé is in the consecutive research interest is to explore the interested in studying the domestic education BA program at OISE. He is in relationship between nutritional status migrant worker population in China the Global Citizenship and Sustainable and academic performance among and international migrant workers and Development cohort and has teachables adolescent boys. In her spare time she marriage immigrants in South Korea. in history and political science. Gordon enjoys photographing birds and baking Th ese research interests sprouted as a graduated with an HBA in political with her four-year-old son. result of her international volunteer science and peace and confl ict studies experiences and her undergraduate from the University of Waterloo in 2006. studies. She a recipient of the 2012 – 2013 After spending a year as a ski instructor Nessa Kenny Ontario Graduate Scholarship. In the in Vancouver, Gordon taught English summer of 2013, she will be doing to Japanese students for fi ve years at Nessa Kenny is a fourth-year student her internship at the UN-ESCAP in the elementary and junior high school in the Faculty of Arts and Science, Incheon, Korea. Sarah graduated from levels in Miyako, Hiroshima, and Tokyo, completing a specialist in peace, confl ict, Queen’s University in 2012 where she Japan. While teaching overseas he spent and justice studies. She is particularly majored in global development and a considerable amount of time travelling interested in issues of paediatric and minored in political studies. During in East and Southeast Asia, involving youth health, specifi cally in confl ict her undergraduate years, she partici- himself in OXFAM Japan and volunteer and post-confl ict regions of the world. pated in a number of short-term mission activities in Cambodia for children who
20 trips to Canada, East Asia, Central an interest in journalism through to travel and complete one or more America, and Eastern Europe. She work at the Varsity, G8 Research Group, graduate degrees in economics or enjoys travelling abroad to learn about and the Policy Exchange. political economy, and to eventually diff erent cultures. Sarah can speak infl uence macroeconomic policy design Korean and English fl uently and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to becom- has a bit of knowledge in French and ing a GII mentor, Fern developed an Mandarin Chinese. She is always Mike Nyman interest in public policy and policy looking for opportunities to practice Mike Nyman is completing the one- innovation through her work as a speaking in these languages. year Bachelor of Education program at research analyst at the Munk School the OISE, with a plan to teach chemistry of Global Aff airs and as a Councillor’s and physics at the secondary level. Upon Aide at Toronto City Hall. Currently, Leah Nosal graduation he hopes to work as a teacher Fern is the Vice-President, Internal, in Australia. Mike holds a Bachelor of for the International Relations Society, Leah Nosal is a fourth-year undergradu- Science (honours chemistry, physics the course union for the international ate student majoring in international minor) from the University of Waterloo, relations undergraduate program at relations and political science. She holds where he graduated on the Dean’s U of T. Th e Hart House Jazz Choir, the a diploma of French Immersion from the Honour List. His research focused on Toronto Globalist, the North American University of Quebec, and completed her molecular dynamics simulations. Model United Nations, and the Youth third year of studies at l’Institut d’études Th rough the co-op program at the Assisting Youth peer mentoring program politiques de Paris last year. Leah plans University of Waterloo, Mike worked in are some of the other clubs and organiza- to pursue graduate studies in interna- government, private R&D, and univer- tions she has been involved with. In her tional aff airs, and aims to work in the sity research laboratories. In his spare spare time, Fern enjoys learning piano, Canadian Foreign Service or related time Mike is an amateur photographer, playing chess, and trying to speak French institutions of international governance. and also enjoys working on web design and Portuguese. Leah has been involved with the Global and hobby electronics projects. Ideas Institute for two years. Her most recent experience in development Amna Raza studies includes a fi eld study course in Bandung, Indonesia, where she Fern Ramoutar Amna Raza is a student in the MPP investigated the capacity of regional Fern Ramoutar is a second-year under- program at the School of Public Policy governments to tackle poverty in light graduate student pursuing an Honours and Governance. She is passionate about of Indonesia’s political decentralization. BA in economics and international international development issues and In addition to her work with the GII, relations. Her academic interests has experience working with non-profi t Leah has conducted research for the include external debt in developing organizations in Canada and abroad. Canadian Centre for the Responsibility countries as well as business-govern- Her interests include social development, to Protect, Engineers Without Borders ment relations and institution building human rights, and poverty alleviation Canada, and the Belinda Stronach in Africa. Upon graduation, she hopes in the Global South. Foundation. She has also cultivated
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Rebecca Roberts Krista Singh frisbee teams. He plans on travelling to Tanzania in May to teach English and Rebecca Roberts is in the last year of Krista Singh is a fi rst-year Master coach various sports teams. Eventually her undergraduate program, currently of Applied Science student in the he hopes to have a full-time job in pursuing a joint degree in arts and Department of Chemical Engineering Toronto teaching accounting, market- science. Her focus on international and Applied Chemistry. With a strong ing, and mathematics. Jason holds relations and health has led to a love of interest in sustainable energy, Krista’s a Bachelor of Arts in Honors Business travel; she has volunteered around the research is focused on improving the Administration (HBA) from the Richard globe in places varying from Bedouin effi ciency of using waste biomass for Ivey School of Business at Western villages in the Negev Desert to South energy. To complement her studies, University. As an undergraduate student, Africa. When she’s not thinking Krista is a member of Leaders of Jason was very involved in student life about global issues (or studying) she Tomorrow: Graduate, a student-run as a Residence Soph, an Off -Campus loves to watch football, read George organization that aims to help graduate Advisor, and a member of the Varsity R.R. Martin, and eat dumplings. students develop their leadership skills, Tennis team. He also found time to Rebecca hopes to pursue a post-graduate preparing them to be leaders in industry teach Hebrew at a local private school degree in medicine, striving to combine and society. Krista holds a Bachelor of to grade four students. In the summers, her two majors by one day working in Engineering in engineering chemistry Jason works as a Unit Head at an over- humanitarian medicine. from Queen’s University, where she night camp in Ontario for children ages graduated with fi rst class honours. seven to sixteen, where he has been for Similar to chemical engineering, twelve summers. engineering chemistry is a unique and Jordan Scantlebury intensive program that certifi es its Jordan Scantlebury is currently enrolled graduates as both chemical engineers in the Master of Public Policy program. and chemists. During the pursuit of her Kerry Sun Th is is his fi rst year volunteering with undergraduate degree, Krista interned Kerry Sun is an undergraduate student the Global Ideas Institute. With broad with Imperial Oil Limited, helping to majoring in history and political science. interests spanning from the academic improve the energy effi ciency of one Originally from Calgary, Kerry’s aca- (don’t ask him about the biological of their plants, as well as Encana demic interests include international nature of human consciousness) to the Corporation, where she helped with security and international development. pragmatic (don’t ask him about issues the estimation of their greenhouse Kerry is actively involved in organiza- in Canadian health policies either), gas emissions. tions on and off campus, including Jordan was drawn to the GII by the Model United Nations and the CNIB. opportunity to work with some of the Kerry recently completed an internship GTA’s most promising students as they Jason Stern at the Hudson Institute in Washington, tackle one of the world’s most pressing DC, where he researched issues relating problems. Despite spending entirely Jason Stern is a teacher candidate at to international development. Next too long in academia, Jordan has OISE. He is in the intermediate / senior summer, Kerry is completing a three- experience in the private, public, and program studying to be a business month volunteering placement in non-profi t sectors, with past volunteer studies and mathematics teacher. His Honduras with Interncordia Canada. work including tutoring at-risk youth studies have a large focus on educating In his spare time, Kerry enjoys skiing, and participation in science education for global citizenship and sustainable hiking, and travelling. He hopes that programs. He holds a graduate degree development. During his time at OISE, the students who participated in this in psychology and neuroscience from Jason is serving as Athletics Coordinator year’s Global Ideas Institute will have Dalhousie University. for the Student Teachers’ Union and a rewarding experience in their quest plays on OISE’s volleyball and ultimate to tackle food insecurity.
22 High School Participants
Camilla Akbari attends Stilianis Anagnostakos Intern-ational Model United Michelle Chen is a student Branksome Hall and is currently in is a grade twelve student at Pickering Nations (THIMUN), in the at Havergal College. grade eleven. She has always been College who has participated in Netherlands. In addition, she attended a political philosophy interested in international aff airs various sports and clubs throughout Paul Choi is a grade eleven summer course at Brown University. and public relations. This is shown her school career. She specifi cally student at the University of Toronto She has tutored in her continued involvement in strives for environmental change Schools, where he is fascinated at Church Street Public School Branksome Hall’s Debating and within the school kitchen by imple- every day by all of the subjects that through the Horizons program, for Public Speaking Society (where menting methods to lessen the food he learns. He is intrigued by the GII which she also works as a tutor in she currently serves as one of two waste the school produces. Stilina concept of marrying the sciences the summer. Maddie is also quite co-heads). She will be attending always enjoys the GII lectures and with public policy, and the big creative. She plays the drums, guitar, the World Individual Debating and feels that she learns a lot by listen- impact that such an approach can and piano, and is extremely passion- Public Speaking Championship in ing to the speakers as well as her have. He appreciates the potential ate about music. She was also a Durban, South Africa, this spring. peers. that science holds, but at the same participant in Infusion, a cultural Camilla is also very interested in time realizes the great power of enrichment evening organized by community service. She is the Sohila Azimi is a student at human interaction. He has explored Branksome, at which she performed head of her school’s Best Buddies David and Mary Thomson Collegiate these interactions through volun- a Bollywood dance with several of chapter and has been involved in Institute. teering in a hospital, tutoring, and her classmates. In her spare time, the program since grade nine. Her simply talking to his friends and Maddie enjoys travelling. This interests in chemistry and physics teachers. He has lived all over the Nicholas Belanger is a summer, she took an art history were what initially caused her to world, including parts of Canada, student at Bloor Collegiate Institute. course in France with Blyth Academy. become interested in this year’s Korea, and New Zealand, and has In future, Maddie is planning to Global Ideas Institute. She hopes travelled extensively. As a result, he pursue a liberal arts oriented edu- to go into engineering when she Nafisa Bhuiyan is a student knows fi rst-hand the connectivity cation, and she hopes to develop a enters university. During the summer, at Bloor Collegiate Institute. of global society. To relax he enjoys career in journalism, international Camilla works at a sailing camp and reading, watching movies, and relations, or fi lm. participates in multiple races and Fernando Casanova playing sports. However, he remains regattas. She is looking forward to likes to take long walks on the committed to his mission, which is presenting her group’s innovative beach and think of how he can Isabella Chan is a student to stay focused on his studies and solution to the problem of scaling make the world a better place to at Thornlea Secondary School. to engage in world aff airs with the up Sprinkles. live in. He is currently in grade hopes of contributing in a meaning- eleven and is looking forward to Katherine Chan is a student ful way to our ever-changing society Zakariya Ali is a grade ten his last year in high school. He is an at Thornlea Secondary School. that seems to have gone global student at the York School. He is international student at Pickering overnight. an active member in his school’s College from Mexico. This will be Melody Chan is a grade eleven community, as a part of several Fernando’s fourth year in Canada. student at St. Clement’s School. She Elizabeth Colraine is a sports teams, debating, Model UN, Fernando decided to join the GII to enjoys studying the social sciences student at St. Clement’s School. Ontario Model Parliament, com- become involved in issues of global and is especially interested in history. munity service and social justice development and get a sense of Her personal strengths are fl exibility, clubs, concert band, and several university level work, which he is Georgia Cottrelle is in grade courage, and positivity. She is partici- other activities. Outside of school, not far away from experiencing. twelve at the Bishop Strachan School. pating in the Global Ideas Institute Zak volunteers for the Scarborough Fernando has really enjoyed the Her favourite subjects include geo- because of her interest in the Global Hospital Foundation. He also experience provided by the Global graphy, world issues, English, and South and her desires to learn about works for the Canadian Basketball Ideas Institute, including the dif- economics. Georgia hopes to receive the issues facing its development and Academy, both in the offi ce and ferent speakers and articles, and her undergraduate degree in arts work with people who are united in a as a coach. He enjoys playing com- is eager to see what the ultimate and pursue law. She is passionate common cause. Her hobbies include petitive basketball and hockey in solution to malnutrition will be in about dance, horseback riding, fi eld reading adventure novels, listening his extra time. After fi nishing his IB the future. hockey, music, family, friends, and to indie music, and walking her dog, Diploma, Zak plans on completing a camp. Georgia has researched food Duster. In her free time, she also degree in either sports management scarcity for two school projects and Maddie Cavanagh is in grade enjoys making snowmen and debat- or sports medicine. GII has allowed has been excited by this opportunity eleven at Branksome Hall School. ing with those who aren’t easily of- Zak to use his innovation and crea- to deepen her understanding of the Her interests include music, fi lm, fended. When she has accidentally tivity on a real project which has topic. She has been inspired by the and international relations. She but offi cially entered the realm of helped to develop his knowledge of variety and depth of the speakers and is on the Executive Committee of “the adult,” she hopes to become a the world and problem-solving skills. has enjoyed broadening her thinking her school’s Debating Society, and lawyer and fi ght for those who have on global issues. participates frequently in Model something important to say. Her United Nations. She has attended role model is her grandfather who conferences such as the Secondary showed her that the battle is never Schools United Nations Symposium over until you want it to be. She is (SSUNS) and the Southern Ontario also a great admirer of Dr. Seuss, Model United Nations Assembly who, in her opinion, was one of (SOMA) in Canada. Most recently, the greatest authors of his time. she attended The Hague
23 High School Participants (continued)
Georgia Ellickson is a grade Julia Fleming-Dresser is Ideas Institute because it has Hannah Laird is a grade ten ten student at the York School. She a student at St. Clement’s School. allowed her to view the global student at Havergal College. Her is a hardworking and driven student community from a diff erent per- academic interests lie primarily in spective and she has enjoyed being who enjoys all her courses in school Sean Mickel Fontanilla biological studies, and she hopes able to hear from experts across this year, especially emerging world is a student at Northview Heights to pursue a career as a veterinarian. various fi elds about their own issues. Last year, she received the Secondary School. Her personal interests include dedication award for all-around experiences. softball, fi eld hockey, and skiing. dedication in each aspect of her Hannah also enjoys travelling, and is Hannah Fung is a grade twelve studies. This summer, Georgia will Zahra Khan is a student at soon going to Australia for a month. student at the University of Toronto be volunteering four weeks of her David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Her volunteer experiences include Schools. She is interested in explor- time at her summer camp through Institute. working with patients at an old age the Leaders in Training Program. ing the issue of micronutrient home, as a camp counselor, and at a Georgia is heavily involved in com- malnutrition through the social, veterinary hospital. In 2011, Hannah Kailey Kimsa is a grade ten munity service activities and sees political, and economic forces that was a recipient of the Wendy J. student at the York School. She is volunteering as an important aspect shape it. The lecture series at GII has Thompson Scholarship for Entrance an active member of her school of her life. She has taken the initia- inspired her to research and develop to Havergal. From participating in community, as a part of Community tive to start her own t-shirt company, imaginative solutions to address the Global Ideas Institute, she has and Service Committee, Social where all the profi ts made from the existing needs in society. learned about looking at diff erent Justice Club, Kindness Counts, and selling of the shirts will be donated aspects of problems to fi nd a reso- Debate Team. Furthermore, she to SickKids Hospital in Toronto. Rabab Haider is a student lution, as well as the process of participates in diff erent sports Georgia loves studying science, and at Northview Heights Secondary problem solving. outside of school, including dance. would like to go on to university to School. Kailey has a passion for helping study biology. She aspires to become others, having taken part in two Zameena Lakhani has been a doctor and continue volunteering Isaac Hambrock is a student service trips. She travelled to Mexico a student at Branksome Hall since in her community. at Pickering College. with Me to We and Costa Rica with grade seven (2008). Now a grade Rustic Pathways. She loves explor- eleven student, Zameena actively Benjamin Feldman, a grade Erica Harper was born in ing new countries and learning participates in debating and public ten student at the York School, is Montreal in 1996 and moved to more about global communities speaking at her school and seeks out very excited to be a part of the Global Toronto two years later. She began and the struggles people around leadership and creative opportuni- Ideas Institute’s Sprinkles project. her education in the French public the world face. The Global Ideas ties including the annual student- He is enthusiastic about learning school system and transferred to Institute has fueled her curiosity run World Aff airs Conference, student from others to combat infant mal- Havergal College in grade nine. for solving human rights issues and government, and the annual senior nutrition, and with that, promote Throughout elementary and high challenged her to develop a new theatre production. She also has a collaboration – not competition – school, she has played several sports, model for thinking. Kailey is very strong passion for languages, and as a means to solve problems. including golf, softball, soccer, interested in the social sciences and takes both French and English as To Benjamin, compassion and track and fi eld, and badminton. is hoping to pursue these subjects fi rst languages. Outside of school, empathy should be central to Erica is bilingual and is working in the future. Zameena is actively involved in her distributing Sprinkles. Authentic on becoming fl uent in Spanish. community as a youth representa- relationships (built through positive tive for Brampton on the Aga Khan She was head of the Spanish club Holden Koivu is a grade eleven human-to-human contact) will Youth and Sports Board, as well during the 2012 – 2013 school year. student at Ursula Franklin Academy. encourage trust and commitment as being a dance instructor for an This summer, Erica is going on an At the Global Ideas Institute, he is between the powder’s suppliers annual cultural show. Additionally, educational trip to Spain for two working to develop a feasible solu- and consumers. At school, in Zameena enjoys travelling and weeks to improve her Spanish. tion to widespread micronutrient addition to debating and public exploring diff erent parts of the She aspires to study hotel manage- defi ciencies in the Global South. He speaking, Benjamin started a world including various cultures, ment and to continue travelling is an intrinsically motivated learner human rights club with a grade languages, perspectives, cuisines, and discovering new cultures. who wishes to apply his passion for twelve student and a teacher. and architectural styles. The Global science to world problems and make Outside of school, he is writing Ideas Institute is an extremely a diff erence. Holden’s academic a play – the playwriting process Hannah Herbert- interesting initiative that engages accomplishments include UFA subject has really stretched his love of Robertson is a grade twelve many of Zameena’s interests and awards in grade nine science, grade theatre! It will be read as part of student at the Bishop Strachan passions. She has been able to ten science, and grade nine enriched the Tarragon Theatre’s Paprika School. Hannah entertains a variety expand and broaden her knowledge math. After skipping grade ten math, Festival. of interests, including being a regarding the specifi c issue of he won the subject award for grade member of her school’s Senior Band, malnutrition in various geographic eleven enriched math. In 2012, a House Head, and Head Stage locations and strives to propose a Danielle Fitleberg is a Holden achieved the highest mark Manager of the school’s collabora- feasible solution with her school student at Thornlea Secondary in his school in the Sun Life Financial tion production with Upper Canada team. The idea that one person or School. Canadian Open Math Challenge. College of the 25th Annual Putnam a small group of people can make Holden is a math tutor and teaching County Spelling Bee. Hannah has a diff erence in the lives of millions assistant to advanced math students. really enjoyed her experience with is fascinating. Zameena is honoured the Munk School and the Global to have the opportunity to partici-
24 pate in this initiative, surrounded years and has grown to love the subjects are calculus and biology, Ciara O’Brien-Jackson by other students with whom to competitive but collaborative and she was accepted to Queen’s (pronounced like Key-rah) describes engage in meaningful discussion atmosphere. The Global Ideas University in mid-December. herself as an artist, a writer, and an leading to a potential solution to Institute is one of the most inter- Mareena will be attending Queen’s extremely open-minded, outgoing, the Sprinkles challenge. esting experiences she has ever had. next year in her fi rst choice program, and confi dent woman. She loves to Being able to explore an important biomedical computing. Participating laugh, smile, and spend time with Thomas Lam was born on June issue and come up with solutions in the Global Ideas Institute at the people. She claims to drink too 1st, 1996, in Canada. He spent his that could end up saving lives is a Munk School has given her a new much coff ee and tea for her own whole life living in Toronto, never wonderful opportunity that has way to look at problems, and she good and her favourite animal is a really moving around. He is currently furthered her interest in the fi eld has enjoyed every meeting. snow leopard. She attends Ursula enrolled in TOPS (Talented Off erings of human rights. She looks forward Franklin Academy (UFA). She is 16 for Programs in the Sciences) at to seeing what everyone comes Emils Matiss has aided several years old and claims to be too lazy Bloor Collegiate Institute, and up with for the fi nal symposium! organizations in human develop- to get her driver’s license, which has although sometimes the workload ment over the past few years. Most resulted in her ranting on about the is a handful, he wouldn’t trade it for Katja Lichtenberger is recently he travelled to Kenya to TTC for hours. She currently co-ops anything. How he would describe a student at the York School. construct an all-girls high school at a law fi rm called Ricketts, Harris himself as a person would take ages with Free the Children in the Maasai LLP. She wishes to study Criminal Justice at the University of Guelph to write, but in short, he would say QiQi Lin is a student at Bloor Mara region. Emils has many diverse after high school. Right now, she that he is a work in progress. He Collegiate Institute. interests ranging from photography really thinks that there is much more to apiculture to economics. Seeking enjoys being part of her school that he should learn about himself, inspiration, Emils has travelled a community and this year she is a and the only way to do so is through Robyn Lin is an eleventh grader signifi cant portion of the world, part of Students Against Stereo- experience. He wouldn’t say that he at the Bishop Strachan School. Her visiting museums and galleries typing Sexuality (SASS), which is is a truly devoted student. Though favourite subjects include account- throughout Europe and the Americas. her school’s Gay-Straight Alliance; he works hard in school, he is also ing, philosophy, history, and English. He is a student at Ursula Franklin Upstream, which is an anti-oppres- like any other teenager; he lives for She enjoys spending her time reading, Academy and a Canadian and Latvian sion conference UFA holds every downtime and likes to socialize with hanging out with friends, and national who speaks English, French, year; and Model United Nations. friends. He has won some awards coaching gymnastics at Seneca and Latvian, and is currently learning She also loves to read, from Charles from programs outside of school for College. She hopes to attend German and Spanish. Dickens to Ellen Hopkins, and is things like achievements in mathe- university either in the United currently reading Half of a Yellow Sun Kingdom or the United States, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and matics, and is really grateful for the Clare Moffat is in grade eleven where she plans on studying Little Bee by Chris Cleave. Reading opportunities that he’s received. at Branksome Hall in the Inter- business or political science. Robyn has led to her love for English class. Thomas aspires to be a doctor. As national Baccalaureate Program. has enjoyed being part of the Global She also loves travelling, and has to which type of doctor, he is not She enjoys mathematics, science, Ideas Institute, especially listening been to France, Belgium, Ireland, so sure. Ever since he was a kid, he and music. Clare is involved in the to the variety of keynote speakers. Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, found that he had a liking for the mathematics club at her school UK, and USA. She usually spends her sciences. Growing up in a neigh- where she organizes weekly summers in Ireland since all her bourhood where people weren’t the Celine Liu is a student at activities for the club members. family lives there, but recently has wealthiest, and their health was Thornlea Secondary School. She is also involved in the science been working in Manhattan during no better, he really wished that he enrichment club. Clare develops the summer months. Ciara is also could give back to the community, Daniel Loo is a student at David interesting science experiments extremely active. She used to swim helping others any way possible. and Mary Thomson Collegiate and shares them with the group. and play hockey competitively. This As he grew up, he found a strong Institute. She is also active in debating and year, she has taken up running. interest in the biological sciences, public speaking and participates She hopes to be able to run a half and although becoming a doctor in local, national, and international Shalyssa Low-Bodington marathon by the end of the summer. will require a long and challenging tournaments. This has given her is a student at David and Mary She joined GII because she was road, he strongly believes that it many opportunities to travel Thomson Collegiate Institute. provided with a sheet of paper that is where he belongs. across Canada to such locations talked about children and mal- as Vancouver, Regina, Estevan, nutrition, and to tell you the truth Madeleine Lavallée- Nico Macias is a student at Winnipeg, Montreal, and Halifax. she knew very little about it initially. Gordon is a grade eleven student Pickering College. Clare also enjoys sports. She plays Though after reading the piece of at Branksome Hall. She speaks fl uent basketball, badminton, and softball paper, she fell in love with the idea French, as well as beginner Mandarin Mareena Mallory is a on her school’s teams, which of Sprinkles and wished to be part and Spanish. She is passionate about dedicated student who excels in compete in leagues and tourna- of this amazing opportunity. She human rights and participates in many areas of her life. She plays ments in Toronto. Clare is interested has learned so many valuable skills many community service initiatives fl ute, guitar and piano, and is an in music. She studied at the Young from being part of clubs and sports within and outside her school com- accomplished singer. Mareena also Artists Performance Academy at teams, and was able to use those munity. She loves to travel and learn plays softball and basketball, and is the Royal Conservatory of Music skills in GII. GII has been an extra- about diff erent people’s perspectives co-captain of her school’s volleyball where she received her ARCT Piano ordinary experience and she has around the world. She has been team. All three teams placed fi rst in Performance Diploma. enjoyed every minute of it. playing competitive hockey for eight their division last term. Her favourite
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Miranda Pring is a student Emma Rugazoora is a student Eilish Sibalis is a grade eleven she loves learning about the world at Northview Heights Secondary at Branksome Hall in grade eleven. student at the University of Toronto and taking part in debates and School. Before recently moving to Canada, Schools. She was fi rst drawn to the discussions. She is grateful to have she lived for sixteen years in Uganda, GII because of her interest in inter- been given this opportunity to be Selvalakshmi a country with diverse cultures and national development, which she a part of such a great program. Rabindranath-Tagore is a beliefs and a rich history. The experi- hopes to study in university, and student at Ursula Franklin Academy. ences of travelling to various the belief that everyone deserves a Julia Tang is a grade eleven countries and attending interna- healthy and bright future. She loves student attending University of tional schools such as The Honey travelling and participated in an Toronto Schools. Her interests George Radner is a grade Tree Montessori, Rainbow Inter- Italian exchange program through include digital art, photography, eleven student at University of national School, the International her school. She also has an interest fi lmmaking, and astrophysics; Toronto Schools with a passion School of Uganda, and now Brank- in sustainable urban planning, subjects she plans to further pursue for studying world issues, such as some Hall, have enabled her to have and attended the Maximum City in her post-secondary education. malnutrition and climate change. an open mind and view situations summer program for architecture Her volunteering activities include He plans to pursue international from diff erent perspectives. She and urban design. She is aiming being a camp counselor at the Art development as a career and aspires is grateful to be partaking in the to take a gap year before starting Gallery of Ontario and working with to become a global leader in the Global Ideas Institute this year, university, during which she will several charitable organizations fi ght against poverty. The Global an enriching experience that has travel, work, and volunteer. In her such as the MS Society of Canada, Ideas Institute has challenged and broadened her knowledge and spare time Eilish enjoys activities Free the Children, and World Vision. stimulated George, awakening him understanding of important global like reading and rowing. She takes a passionate stance on to the complexity of solving broad issues. After reading about this world issues and believes in the and multidimensional problems year’s challenge, she was immedi- importance of contributing to the such as that of scaling up Sprinkles. Rebecca Stokes is in grade ately intrigued by it. She has always global community, which is what George also enjoys classical music, eleven at Havergal College. This is had a keen interest in problem- led her to participate in the Global baseball, and philosophy. her fi rst year at Havergal, as she solving and taking part in team moved from London, England, over Ideas Institute. She hopes that initiatives. She was surely inspired the summer. Her favourite subjects through the GII, she will be able Suryakala Raju is a student at to reduce the prevalence of are biology and psychology. She to gain a deeper insight into the David and Mary Thomson Collegiate malnutrition in the developing loves music. She was a member of global issue of malnutrition and Institute. world in the most cost-eff ective her school chamber and senior choir help provide possible solutions to manner. This experience has inspired for eight years, and enjoys playing the problem of child malnutrition Lia Reed-Cote goes to her future aspiration to fi nd inno- the piano in her spare time. Presently, in developing countries. St. Clement’s School and is in grade vative ways to solve global issues. she is a member of many school eleven. Her favourite areas of study clubs and programs such as Dance Victoria Turnbull is in grade are math and science, particularly Fawwaz Safi is a student at Troupe, Model UN, and event council. eleven at Ursula Franklin Academy. chemistry. She hopes to become a Northview Heights Secondary She enjoys playing tennis and soccer, Her two favourite subjects are doctor, which is one of the reasons School. and going on daily runs. Last April physics and chemistry. She intends she is so happy to be part of the she ran the London Virgin Mini Mara- to earn an undergraduate degree Global Ideas Institute. She fi nds it Sam Sarabia is in grade eleven thon and a few years before that she in the latter. Additionally, she loves very interesting to learn about the and has been at St. Clement’s since took part in Orillia’s Kids of Steel to read and discuss books from any unfortunate eff ects of malnutrition grade seven. Her favourite subjects Triathlon. She loves volunteer work genre, and this year her English on children, and is excited to help are the sciences and she intends to and organizing events at school. She teacher has helped her to discover come up with a solution. Outside study science in university and then is currently running a clean water some little known yet extremely of school, Lia loves playing musical possibly go to medical school. She campaign in the form of a penny entertaining plays. When she is instruments, which include the thinks this year’s GII project is a great drive, and with a group of friends not reading or catching up on piano, guitar, flute, and others. way to combine science and world she organized two charity discos homework, she enjoys the occa- Within school, Lia is very proud issues. She enjoys playing sports, at her old school. One of these was sional run through the park or stint to be a part of the Chamber Choir, especially basketball and tennis. for assisting to build schools for of yoga to stay in shape. Victoria writes for the school newspaper, She also enjoys listening to music, children in India and the other for participates in a variety of volunteer and spends a lot of time operating reading, and travelling to warm providing funding for reconstructive activities, and in the past has done either lighting or sound for theatrical places. She currently volunteers surgery for children with deformed the Juravinski walk for cancer. shows. She is very grateful to be a at Sunnybrook Hospital and is a faces. She is presently volunteering She takes part in a co-operative part of the GII, and has enjoyed member of the Environmental at Holland Bloorview Hospital every education program at Beverley immensely hearing from so many Club at her school. week working with children with Public School, which is an ele- brilliant speakers and having the disabilities. She is also taking part mentary school for children with opportunity to work with such in an excursion to Nicaragua over various physical and mental dis- talented students. March break to help build schools. abilities. Previously, she volunteered Rebecca signed up for GII because in a grade four and fi ve classroom,
26 helping to teach math and science. in extracurricular sports, such as Lauren Weinberg is a University of Chicago and aspires Along with this, she is involved in hockey and tennis. In school, he senior student the Bishop Strachan to commence her post-secondary planning the Upstream conference, enjoys math, chemistry, and physics. School. At school, Lauren heads the education in the United States. which is an annual conference her Max plans on completing the IB Academic Council and is actively school holds to raise awareness Diploma and studying business or involved in Model United Nations, Tiphaera Ziner-Cohen is a about people’s actions in support engineering in his post-secondary Speaker’s Union, and DECA. Lauren student at Bishop Strachan School. of international anti-oppression. education. Through the Global Ideas has been successful in many of her Victoria heard about the Global Institute, he has been able to use extra-curricular endeavours, win- Ideas Institute through her biology problem-solving and teamwork, ning fi ve consecutive Best Delegate teacher, and was instantly attracted all while learning about developing awards in Model UN and placing to the idea of working on such an world issues. second internationally for her DECA amazing project, and getting the business proposal to enhance Star- chance to see what university Alyssa (Wenshan) Wang bucks’ current customer loyalty lectures were like. She has met so is a student at Northview Heights program. Passionate about inter- many great people along the way, Secondary School. national relations and political and has even gotten closer to the science, Lauren has volunteered people from her own school in the for numerous political campaigns Ray Watts is a grade eleven program. She is happy that it has and has travelled abroad for several student in the TOPS program at been such an amazing experience! international community service Bloor Collegiate Institute. He was trips. Over the past four years Lauren born on the 28th of February, 1996. has devoted each of her Saturdays Max Valentine is a grade ten He placed third in the PUG architec- to Toronto Youth Development, a student at the York School. Max’s ture contest in grade eight and was grassroots organization in Regent strongest passion is fi lmmaking, a fi nalist in the Canada-Wide Science Park, as a mentor and tutor for and he pursues his passion both in Fair in grade nine. His hobbies Toronto’s at-risk youth. While she and out of school. Aside from being include game programming, game has yet to commit to an institution, a diligent student and partaking in playing, and writing science fi ction. the student council, he participates Lauren has been accepted into the
27 Expert Speaker Series
Wednesday, Monday, Over the past several months, the Global Ideas Institute November 7, 2012 March 4, 2013 speaker series organized by the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Aff airs has brought together leading profes- Global Child Health: Behaviorally Informed sionals and academics to talk about their experiences in Big Picture and Narrow Focus Innovation addressing complex global problems. Th ese high-profi le Dr. Stanley Zlotkin Dilip Soman experts have provided extraordinary insights and imparted Chief of Global Child Health Professor in Communication their world-class knowledge to high school and U of T students, at the Hospital for Sick Strategy at the Rotman Children School of Management, inspiring them to think creatively about global health Director of the India challenges and solutions. What are the successes and failures Wednesday, Innovation Institute at in global health innovation? Why are such obvious global December 5, 2012 Rotman and the Munk School of Global Affairs health challenges so diffi cult to resolve? How can young people – UNICEF Canada Lecture including high school students – contribute to these globally Wednesday, pressing conversations? We are very pleased to have Dr. Stanley David Morley March 27, 2013 President and Zlotkin, Chief of Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick CEO of UNICEF Canada Blind Spots in the Welfare Children; David Morley, President and CEO of UNICEF Canada; State: Lessons from the Jennifer Riel, Christopher Federico, Josie Fung, and Nogah Wednesday, January 16, Global South 2013 Kornberg from the Desautels Centre for Integrative Th inking Joseph Wong at U of T’s Rotman School of Management; Anita McGahan, Integrative Thinking: Professor of Political Science Associate Dean at the Rotman School of Management; Dilip Using Your Opposable Mind and Canada Research Chair in Soman, Professor of Communication Strategy at the Rotman Democratization, Health, and Jennifer Riel Development; Director, Asian School of Management; and Joseph Wong, Director of the Associate Director Institute at the Munk School Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Aff airs and of the Desautels Centre of Global Affairs, University Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Th is for Integrative Thinking, of Toronto Rotman School of incredible lineup has inspired, challenged, and encouraged Management, Thursday, students to think globally, to share ideas, and to understand University of Toronto April 4, 2013 the importance of informed advocacy. Th eir eff orts are very Christopher Federico Sharing Your Story: much refl ected in today’s symposium about scaling up the Head of Canadian and World Leveraging the Tools supply of Sprinkles, improving its distribution, and ensuring Studies at the University of of Integrative Thinking that the targeted end users are aware of Sprinkles as one Toronto Schools and Design Thinking intervention that will help to address malnutrition, a key Monday, Josie Fung public health problem aff ecting the Global South. February 4, 2013 Research Associate at the Desautels Centre for Why Are So Many Integrative Thinking, People Hungry Given That Rotman School of We Have So Much Food? Management Anita McGahan Nogah Kornberg Professor and Associate Dean, Research Associate at Director of the PhD Program, the Desautels Centre Rotman School of for Integrative Thinking, Management Rotman School of Management
28 Global Child Health: UNICEF Canada Lecture Big Picture and Narrow Focus
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Dr. Stanley Zlotkin David Morley Chief of Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children President and CEO of UNICEF Canada
Preventing child malnutrition has been a priority for govern- Mr. Morley’s extensive experience in international cooperation ments, NGOs, and UN agencies. Th e last of the major nutrtional began when he volunteered with street children in Central problems yet to be solved is iron defi ciency and its accompany- America in the 1970s. Since then, he has worked in community ing anemia. Close to 200 million children are aff ected globally. development and humanitarian projects in the Congo, Zambia, Our research group has developed an intervention, known as Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Sprinkles, to fortify foods in the home to prevent iron defi - El Salvador, and Brazil. ciency. Over the past ten years the intervention has been shown Prior to his appointment to UNICEF Canada, Mr. Morley to be effi cacious and safe. It has been produced by the private served as President and CEO of Save the Children Canada, and sector, championed by the UN, and implemented by the NGO, before that as Executive Director of the Canadian section of public, and private sectors. In 2010, 400 million units were Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders. He has procured by UN agencies alone for use in over thirty countries. also served as the founding Executive Director of the Institute However, the success of the scaling-up process has been quite for Canadian Citizenship; on the Board of Directors of the variable and is contingent on a host of social, political, and Canadian Council for International Co-operation; as President economic factors. Th is discussion will use multiple country of the Ontario Council for International Cooperation; as examples to illustrate the complexity of home-fortifi cation a mentor with the Trudeau Foundation; and on the Board scaling that will help to illuminate “Th e Challenge” in an of Directors of the Brazilian-based Abrinq Foundation for applied context. the Rights of Children. He is currently a member of the Board Stanley Zlotkin, MD, PhD, is a professor of Paediatrics, Public of Directors of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, and is on the Health Sciences, and Nutritional Sciences at the University Advisory Board of McGill University’s Institute for the Study of Toronto. He was appointed Vice President of Medical and of International Development. Academic Aff airs at SickKids in July 2012. His program, the David Morley’s writing on international issues has appeared Sprinkles Global Health Initiative, has focused on research and in newspapers across Canada and around the world. He is a advocacy to control micronutrient malnutrition in children. frequent commentator on radio and television. His most recent Dr. Zlotkin has been awarded the CIHR National Knowledge book, Healing Our World: Inside Doctors Without Borders, Translation Award, the H.J. Heinz Humanitarian Award, and the was published in Canada, South Korea, and the United States, Order of Canada for his contributions to improving the health where it won a number of awards. of children globally. In 2011 he was awarded a Fellowship in the Canadian Society of Health Sciences.
29 Expert Speaker Series (continued)
Integrative Thinking: Using Your Opposable Mind
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
At the Rotman School of Management, under our Dean Roger Martin, we’ve spent a decade deciphering and teaching how truly successful leaders think. From interviews with more than 50 highly successful leaders across industries — leaders like A.G. Lafl ey of Procter & Gamble, Isadore Sharp of the Four Seasons, and Dr. Victoria Hale of the Institute for One World Health — we found a specifi c pattern of thinking that informs better decisions and more eff ective action. Called Integrative Th inking, this pattern of thinking represents the ability to generate new and better options in the face of opposing ideas. Th is talk will cover the theory of integrative thinking and off er some illustrative examples of integrative thinking in action. Finally, we’ll put the theory to use, working together to explore models and create new ideas.
Jennifer Riel Christopher Federico Associate Director of the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking, Head of Canadian and World Studies Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto at the University of Toronto Schools
Jennifer is academic director for Rotman’s fl agship open- Christopher has taught at both the secondary and post- enrollment Integrative Th inking Program. She has created and secondary levels in the disciplines of history, geography, led custom workshops with large public and private sector politics, and economics. He is currently Coordinator of the organizations in Canada, the United States, Europe, the Mid- Department of Canadian and World Studies at the University dle East, and Australia. She collaborates closely with Rotman of Toronto Schools, seconded part time to the I-Th ink Initiative Dean Roger Martin on his writing, including Th e Opposable Mind: at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking (2007), The Christopher is particularly interested in exploring the Design of Business: Why Design Th inking is the New Competitive Advantage processes used by individuals and groups to model and resolve (2009),and Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can complex problems in matters of public policy and peace and Learn from the NFL (2011). confl ict. In addition to his academic interest in the subject, She has published articles in Businessweek, Strategy Magazine, he has fi rst-hand experience with complex decision making and Rotman Magazine, as well online at Fortune.com and the Daily and the developing world, having served in the Abyei region Beast. Jennifer received her MBA from the Rotman School of with the United Nations Mission in Sudan from June to Management in 2006. Prior to joining Rotman, she worked as December 2006. a project manager and copywriter in the retail and non-profi t sectors.
30 Why Are So Many People Hungry Behaviorally Informed Innovation Given That We Have So Much Food?
Monday, February 4, 2013 Monday, March 4, 2013
Anita McGahan Dilip Soman Professor and Associate Dean, Director of the PhD Program, Professor in Communication Strategy at the Rotman School of Rotman School of Management Management, Director of the India Innovation Institute at Rotman and the Munk School of Global Aff airs Anita M. McGahan is Associate Dean of Research, PhD Director, Professor, and Rotman Chair in Management at Dilip Soman is Corus Chair in Communication Strategy, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Professor of Marketing, and Senior Fellow, Desautels Center She is cross appointed to the Munk School of Global Aff airs; for Integrative Th inking, at the Rotman School of Manage- is a Senior Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitive- ment, University of Toronto. His research interests include ness at Harvard University; and is Chief Economist at the the psychology of judgment and decision-making and its ap- Massachusetts General Hospital Division for Global Health plications to consumer and managerial behaviour, the creation and Human Rights. Her credits include two books and over and measurement of customer value through service excel- one hundred articles, case studies, notes, and other published lence and life-cycle management, managerial behaviour and material on competitive advantage, industry evolution, and decision-making, strategic marketing, behavioural pricing and fi nancial performance. McGahan’s current research empha- promotions, service delivery, innovation and creativity man- sizes entrepreneurship in the public interest and innovative agement, and customer management. Professor Soman serves collaboration between public and private organizations. She as an associate editor of the Journal of Marketing Research, as well is also pursuing a long-standing interest in the inception of as serving on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Re- new industries, particularly in global health. McGahan has search, the Journal of Marketing, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology been recognized as a master teacher for her dedication to the and Marketing Letters. He was recently named as one of the pro- success of junior faculty and for her leadership in course fessors to watch for by the Financial Times. He received a BE from development. In 2010, she was awarded the Academy of the University of Bombay, an MBA at the Indian Institute of Management BPS Division’s Irwin Distinguished Educator Management, and a PhD from the University of Chicago. Award and in 2012 the Academy conferred on McGahan its Career Distinguished Educator Award for her championship of reform in the core curriculum of business schools.
31 Expert Speaker Series (continued)
Blind Spots in the Welfare State: Lessons from the Global South
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Joseph Wong Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Democratization, Health, and Development; Director, Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Aff airs, University of Toronto
Th e disparity between rich and poor continues to increase even as developing countries experience economic growth. At the same time, inherent structural inequality that exists within the welfare state creates a problem of invisibility for seasonal, migrant, and informal sector workers. To successfully address the needs of the most vulnerable populations, we must consider the unique challenges associated with poverty and “invisibility.” Joseph Wong is Canada Research Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he is also the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Aff airs. In addition to dozens of journal articles and contribu- tions to scholarly volumes, Professor Wong has published three books: Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State (Cornell University Press, 2011), Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics In Taiwan and South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2004), and, with Edward Friedman, Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose (Routledge, 2008). Along with Dilip Soman and Janice Stein, Wong is co-editor and contributor the forthcoming book, Innovating for the Global South: Towards a New Innovations Agenda. He has been a visiting researcher and fellow at Oxford, Harvard, and Seoul National University, among others. Wong was elected Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford in 2008, named Senior Fellow of the Asia-Pacifi c Foundation of Canada in 2011, and is a 2012 – 2013 recipient of the Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award. Professor Wong’s cur- rent research focuses on innovation, poverty, and health in developing world settings.
32 Sharing Your Story: Leveraging the Tools of Integrative Thinking and Design Thinking
Thursday, April 4, 2013
At its core, integrative thinking is about developing the ability to solve problems creatively. Using the tools of integrative think- ing and design thinking, groups will work together to pull the threads of their solutions into a coherent, multi-faceted story. All great solutions are the result of a series of diffi cult choices, and now, the challenge for you is to fi nd a way to share your choices in a compelling way. Not only should your story be engaging, your solution should hold up to the needs of the diff erent stakeholders. Th is session will work to make explicit your thinking and add richness to your solutions by taking a number of dif- ferent lenses to your work so far. At the end of this session, groups will have made explicit their solution from multiple perspec- tives, and will be able to share how their solution best meets the needs of all involved.
Josie Fung Nogah Kornberg Research Associate at the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking, Research Associate at the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking, Rotman School of Management Rotman School of Management
Josie Fung is a Research Associate at the Desautels Centre for Nogah Kornberg, BA, BEd, is a Research Associate at the Integrative Th inking at the Rotman School of Management, Desautels Centre for Integrative Th inking at the Rotman where she brings her expertise in design and strategy to the School of Management, where she brings her experience in I-Th ink Initiative. In addition to this role, Josie is involved both developing curriculum and as a teacher with the Toronto with Integrative Th inking Practicum in the MBA program at District School Board to the I-Th ink Initiative. Rotman, and facilitates workshops with DesignWorks. Prior to Rotman, Nogah was a founding member and Prior to Rotman, Josie was a strategy lead for online and Executive Director of the Young Social Entrepreneurs of mobile banking at BMO Bank of Montreal and previous to that, Canada, as well as a Social Studies and English as a Second the Director of Operations for a technology start-up in Toronto. Language high school teacher. She has created curriculum With a range of experience from start-up to enterprise, Josie and run workshops for Kids Help Phone, the Millennium brings a balance of strategic insights and operational experi- Network and L.E.A.D., an educational program focusing ence to her work in advising and leading clients to innovative on the genocide in Darfur. With experience in curriculum and pragmatic solutions. development, program design, and project management, Nogah helps to imagine what could be in the classroom and provides the support to make it happen.
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