{"id":64,"date":"2022-01-09T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=64"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:30","slug":"rhanda-bonet-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2022\/rhanda-bonet-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhanda Bonet-Graham, Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Rhanda Bonet-Graham, Student\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 6\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-65 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Bonet_Graham_Rhanda_800x800px-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Rhanda Bonet Graham, a Carleton University Philanthropy student.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Bonet_Graham_Rhanda_800x800px-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Bonet_Graham_Rhanda_800x800px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Bonet_Graham_Rhanda_800x800px-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Bonet_Graham_Rhanda_800x800px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Bonet_Graham_Rhanda_800x800px-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Bonet_Graham_Rhanda_800x800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><p>Growing up in the Middle East and North Africa has given Rhanda (she\/her) a perspective of both the challenges and possibilities facing the world. A passion for an equitable, knowledgeable, and beautiful world, and the example of her mother, drive Rhanda to pursue further education in philanthropy and leadership. She believes in the power of philanthropy, which she views as both a profession and a calling.<\/p>\n<p>Rhanda advocates and raises funds for women\u2019s health and health research for the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation in Edmonton, Alberta. As a native Arabic speaker, Rhanda has focused her volunteer work in the past few years on supporting recently resettled refugees from the Middle East, mostly by providing them with linguistic and navigational support as they acclimate to life in Canada. Rhanda has also used her classical Western music education to organize benefit concerts to raise money for breast-cancer research in honour of her mother, who lost her battle with breast cancer at a young age.<\/p>\n<p>Rhanda dedicates the MPNL degree to her mother, a Literature professor, who instilled in her the value of higher education, the joy of doing what you love, and the importance of working hard to achieve your goals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grad students Rhanda Bonet Graham &amp; Therry Chevalier spoke about Carleton University&#039;s MPNL program\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7KdnRXYcmTU?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in the Middle East and North Africa has given Rhanda (she\/her) a perspective of both the challenges and possibilities facing the world. A passion for an equitable, knowledgeable, and beautiful world, and the example of her mother, drive Rhanda to pursue further education in philanthropy and leadership. 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