Students Named in SFU Community Engagement Awards

Creating community for people living with chronic pain and illness. Training youth in media and journalism. Providing healing to women who have faced misogyny. Learners in our Community Capacity Building Certificate program have no shortage of ideas for making a positive impact in the world. Now, seven of these students have been named winners of this year’s SFU Student-Community Engagement Competition.

Each year, SFU’s Office of Community Engagement hosts the competition for student teams across the university. Each team submits a proposal for working with community partners to effect transformational change. This spring, 14 out of 54 entries were selected for a $2,000 or $3,000 award to put their ideas into action.

Check out the winning Community Capacity Building students and their creative project ideas:

Elvenia Gray-Sandiford
Documenstory – Ashcroft Youth Media Club

Rita Lee
Happy, Connected, Resilient Neighbours

Ally Giesbrecht
Ali Lohan
Rebecca Kean
Elvenia Gray-Sandiford
(plus 5 team members across SFU)
Knowledge Translation Re-imagining: Healthcare in the DTES

Teodoro Alcuitas
Memorializing the First Filipino in Canada: A Documentary

Rebecca Kean
Ally Giesbrecht
Peer Connect: Accessibility Meetup/Games Night

Sara Cadeau
The Reclamation of Women’s Bundles

You can read the full story about this year’s winners on the competition webpage.