Congratulations to the Winners of the ARAC Student Essay and Community Engagement Awards
The Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice is very excited to congratulate the recipients of the 2024-2025 ARAC Student Essay and Community Engagement Awards! The ARAC student awards are given out to students who are completing work exploring anti-racism and/or decolonization.
Please see our 4 winners below:
Winner: Seemah Mullally
Essay Tittle: “The Colonial Roots of the Ongoing Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women”
Winner: Sarah Scriver
Essay tittle: “‘Crawling Out of the Pits of Hell’: Exploring Indigenous Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth After Experiences of Incarceration”
Winner: Sherley Suthir Niranjan
Essay tittle: “Environmental Justice and Indigenous Communities: A Study of Alberta’s Oil Sands, Treaty 8, and the Role of Biodiversity in Indigenous Worldviews”
Winner: Eric Wood
Essay tittle: “‘The Silent Epidemic’ The Tuberculosis Crisis: Indigenous Children in Residential Schools”
Congratulations again to all of the award winners!