'A trifecta of recognition'

The six winners for 2016 shine in many ways. 

Take winner Chloe Williams, for example. She’s an elected Concordia Student Union (CSU) executive who divides her attention between the Hive Café, the Concordia Food Coalition, the Loyola Dish Project and the Library Services Fund Committee, among other organizations. Williams avoids the spotlight and works with boundless energy to improve student life.

As does the winner of the Lifetime of Giving Award, Donald de Guerre, associate professor and chair of the Department of Applied Human Sciences. De Guerre is widely regarded in the professional domain as a cutting-edge thinker and scholar. His pedagogy is unique, experiential and deeply humanistic. 

Winner Mandy Pham, for instance, used her talents and knowledge of human resources to develop an employee handbook for Literacy Unlimited.

This document became an important tool for the organization’s staff. Additionally, Pham facilitates a project so that her peers studying human resources can gain meaningful work experience before they graduate.

Pham has volunteered at the Jules Verne Elementary School, Youth4Youth and Venturing Out Beyond Our Cancer (VOBOC).

Engaged Scholar Awards

Each year, the Office of Community Engagement and the Office of the Provost recognize students, faculty members and community partners for their exemplary participation in community-engaged scholarship. The trio of student winners — Amy Collier, Adjani Poirier and Casey Thorne Stainsby — made a documentary play about the history of AIDS Community Care Montreal (ACCM). The outstanding faculty member was longtime community champion Rosemarie Schade.

Read more about the student and faculty winners here.