Ange-Aimée Woods, BFA 00, GrDipl 02
The former CBC Radio One reporter and producer passed away on July 2, at age 41. Within days her family and friends established the Ange-Aimée Woods Memorial Bursary. The initiative is the first-ever memorial bursary featured on FundOne, Concordia’s new crowdfunding platform.
“This is a wonderful tribute. I know this would’ve been important to her; she had the most open spirit,” says Elisabeth Faure, BA 07, GrDipl 10, a friend and colleague.
Born in Vancouver, she grew up in Tacoma, Washington. In 1991, Woods came to Montreal to study cinema at Concordia. She later undertook journalism at the graduate level which led her to an internship at the CBC.
“She really took me under her wing. She went out of her way to encourage young journalists,” says Faure, who was a contemporary of Woods at Canada’s public broadcaster.
Woods served as a reporter, researcher and as senior producer of the CBC program Homerun.
Woods’ ventures extended to food reviews for monthly newspaper Cult MTL, and work on several cinematic productions, including Bon Cop, Bad Cop — one of Canada’s highest grossing films.
Woods left the CBC to pursue a career at Colorado Public Radio (CPR), where she was the station’s first fulltime arts reporter. Her tenure at the station lasted from October 2013 to April of this year.
“I never expected to be a journalist but I was always that one kid in the class who always had her hand raised with a question and answer for everything,” said Woods on her CPR profile.
True to Woods’ spirit, the bursary is open to part-time, fulltime, Canadian and international students in Concordia’s Department of Journalism.
“I’m sure she would’ve wanted everyone to be eligible for this bursary,” says Faure.
The bursary goal is $1,500 — three non-renewable $500 bursaries will granted
Faure has great hopes for the bursary: “There has been so much support already. We like to dream big. Our hope is to establish an endowment that would be given in perpetuity.”
- Visit concordia.ca/FundOne to contribute to the Ange-Aimée Woods Memorial Bursary.