Please join me in congratulating Uche for her amazing achievements this year! Uche is an Honors student in the fourth year of our BComm Digital Business Management program and has been very busy with some great work, I would like e to share Uche’s success story with all of you.

Uche won the City of Toronto Identify ‘N’ Impact (INI) Grant, and was awarded $5,000 to run two workshops for youth in Toronto through her organization The Consent Workshop. The INI funding program provides up to $10,000 in grants for youth to lead and deliver projects up to one year in length that promote youth empowerment and broader community safety in the City of Toronto.

Uche has also been selected by the British Council to deliver an address in Ottawa for the 2019 Youth Innovation Summit. She will be delivering a speech at Parliament Hill about her social action enterprise; The Consent Workshop. Learn more about Uche’s profile and work.

Last but not least, Uche has been nominated for the City of Toronto 2019 Pam McConnell Award for Young Women in Leadership!

We wish Uche the best of luck in all her adventures! Happy International Women’s Day!