Jennifer Onwuemeodo

What is your favourite thing about the College?

The sense of community and the open environment. The college created an inviting space and gave me the opportunity to be creative and explore new ideas. I enjoyed being surrounded by professors and peers filled with so much intellects and well spoken thoughts and ideas. It always pushed me to further my learning.

What will you miss the most?

Romanticizing my life as a Hums student…Basically procrastinating in the lounge.

What is your favourite reading/book/text from the program?

Phillis Wheatley’s On Being Brought from Africa to America, and To S. M. A Young African Painter and excerpt from Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. I have to mention the study of Western Art works and music from the mid-nineteenth century. Jessye Norman- Purcell, Thy hand, Belinda – When I am laid from the opera Dido and Aeneas will always have my heart.

What’s next for you?

I will be pursuing an MA in Child and Youth Care at TMU. Combining my BHUMS honors degree with a double minor in Biology and Psychology was a great way for me to explore my passion for culture, people and science!