3M Canada and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education have announced the recipients of the 2017 3M National Student Fellowship. Among the winners is Caitlin Salvino, Human Rights and Transnational Law, Carleton University (pictured on the bottom row, second from the right)! STLHE offers a profile page about the recipients. Below is the excerpt outlining Caitlin’s background and achievements:
Graduating from a B.A. Human Rights and Law, Caitlin’s passion for human rights has led her to pursue opportunities with the Canadian Parliament, civil society organizations and children with special needs. She has taken on campus leadership roles with six separate clubs, including founding the Human Rights Society and being elected President of the Oxfam at Carleton. As Carleton’s Fulbright Killam Fellow, Caitlin studied at American University in Washington D.C. while interning at the Canadian Embassy and CAIR Coalition.
A dedicated intersectional feminist, Caitlin coordinated and attended an Oxfam Canada Learning Event on gender-based violence in Benin in October 2016, and has since been asked to sit on Oxfam’s 2016-2019 Board of Directors Policy Committee. She has emerged as a campus leader in combatting sexual violence by mobilizing thousands of students to reform Carleton’s Sexual Violence Policy. This summer, she will be leading a team of >100 volunteers to create a national framework response to the sexual violence crisis on Canadian University and College campuses.
Caitlin’s future goals include attending law school and becoming a judge. Above all, she hopes to continue empowering marginalized groups to access their rights and to ensure that they can live a life with dignity.
About the Fellowship Award
The 3M National Student Fellowship Award was introduced in 2012 to honour undergraduate students in Canada who have demonstrated qualities of outstanding leadership and who embrace a vision where the quality of their educational experience can be enhanced in academia and beyond. Each candidate provided their definition of leadership in the context of his or her educational experience. They were also asked to explain why they aspired to leadership roles and to share a challenge in post-secondary education along with a proposed solution.
This partnership between 3M Canada and STLHE is an exciting opportunity for students across Canada to distinguish themselves as part of a unique learning community.
To learn more about this award, please visit: https://www.stlhe.ca/awards/3m-national-student-fellowship