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Linda Cho is a second-year student taking a B.Sc. in Neuroscience and Mental Health (Honours). <\/span><\/span>Linda and her sister Julie (Sprott Entrepreneur student) aim to build a social enterprise, Ascend <\/span><\/span>Art is an online artist platform that connects artists with disabilities to a network of commercial <\/span><\/span>buyers\/businesses providing a potentially long-term financial solution for these artists. They have the<\/span><\/span> goal to connect vulnerable artists with disabilities that face multiple barriers to long-term <\/span><\/span>employment and have no access to an art network of buyers to connect them with commercial art buyers<\/span><\/span> to be financially independent. <\/span><\/span>Linda is an active member of the EDI Neuroscience Committee and has helped interview a <\/span><\/span>Neuroscience graduate student that had overcome multiple barriers in the pursuit of graduate <\/span><\/span>studies for the EDI Neuroscience Spotlight Video series. <\/span><\/span>This past summer, Linda was a DSRI (Dean Summer Research Internship) student in <\/span><\/span>Hildebrand\u2019s lab in the Neuroscience department learning advanced lab techniques and research <\/span><\/span>skills. Linda was a recipient of the City of Ottawa Art Project: City of Ottawa \u2013 2022 Equity and <\/span><\/span>Inclusion in the Arts Project – GROW Grant Category. <\/span><\/span>She has the goal to continue to advocate for people with disabilities through developing a social <\/span><\/span>enterprise, an online artist platform-Ascend Art, and The City of Ottawa Art Project: City of <\/span><\/span>Ottawa \u2013 2022 Equity and Inclusion in the Arts Project – GROW Grant Category. Her future <\/span><\/span>neuroscience research projects will aim to disrupt systemic barriers\/inequities for STEM students with<\/span><\/span> disabilities on campus and in the workplace. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2545,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Linda","cu_people_last_name":"Cho","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[66],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-2544","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-launch-w23"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"LindaCho@cmail.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2544\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}