Student services and success

Lisa Ndejuru
Psychotherapist and psychodramatist

Lisa Ndejuru ('20), holds a PhD from Concordia University. She is a licensed psychotherapist and psychodramatist, community theatre artist, and genocide scholar working at the crossroads of oral history and tradition, wellness and the arts. Her work explores silences, tensions and difficult conversations, stories of trauma and displacement. Her foci are the ways “waking our stories” through storytelling, play and improvised theatre allow for individual and collective meaning-making and empowerment in the aftermath of large-scale political violence. Dr. Ndejuru is a 2021 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. She is working with the Vansina Collection of Ibitekerezo — traditional Rwandan wisdom tales.

Frederick Francis
Program coordinator, Engineering and Computer Science, Institute for Co-operative Education

Frederick Francis is the Co-op Institute Coordinator for the Gina Cody School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical and Aerospace undergraduate programs.  After completing his undergraduate studies in Philosophy at Concordia, he studied music at the McGill University Schulich School of Music and then undertook graduate work in the JMSB MBA & MSc Programs. He had previously served as Concordia’s representative on the Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec (CREPUQ) - International Subcommittee and the International Student Exchange Subcommittee prior to joining the Co-op Institute.