Alumni

Disability organizations in general “don’t talk about race, and specifically racism and anti-Black racism,” says grad Sadora Asefaw

Disability organizations in general “don’t talk about race, and specifically racism and anti-Black racism,” says Sadora Asefaw, who studied the experiences of Black families raising children with developmental disabilities for a master’s degree in environmental studies from York University, and is now working on an independent digital storytelling project about how Black families and families […]

York paper part of journal's special collection on health promotion in Indigenous communities

A paper out of York University is included in a special collection of Health Promotion Practice that focuses on health engagement, knowledge and participating in Indigenous communities. A journal of the Society for Public Health Education, Health Promotion Practice has curated eight papers published in 2020 that focus on Indigenous health, and has made the collection open access. The […]

York’s Environmental Grads Change the World

Many people want to make an impact on the world. York alumni are no exception. Hear from our three of our incredible Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change grads and learn how York was pivotal to their success. Growing up on the island of St. Lucia, Neave Constantine (BES’19) saw a country with few natural […]

EUC grad students and alumni connect virtually through Anita McBride Mentoring Workshop

Masters of Environmental Studies (MES) students at the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC) participated at the annual Anita McBride Mentoring Workshop on Oct. 20, first-ever virtual offering of the event that brings students and alumni together for mentorship opportunities. The Anita McBride Mentoring Luncheon is an annual event for EUC students and alumni, historically consisting […]

Zoom calls getting boring? This animal sanctuary found a solution: Buckwheat the Donkey

Since people can't get to the animals, Farmhouse Garden Animal Home, an Uxbridge-based sanctuary co-founded by BES alumna Edith Barabash, is bringing animals to the people. Now, anyone with WiFi access can invite one of the sanctuary’s most popular attractions—Buckwheat, the 12-year-old donkey—to drop in on their Zoom meetings In the predemic times, the Farmhouse […]

Tristan Costa

About Tristan Costa How would you describe your years at EUC, and did the program prepare you for your career? How? As a current Planner, the MES/FES Program expanded the breadth of my knowledge in the field of planning. The program taught me the importance of understanding a variety of disciplines within the planning stream […]