ALUMNI NEWS
Notes on the milestones and achievements in the lives of our alumni. There are plenty of ways to stay in touch! www.utsconnect.ca alumni@utschools.ca @utschools @utschools / @rosemary_evans @utschools
NEWS AND MOVES He’s the Mayor of Toronto, and now named the fifth most influential Torontonian by Toronto Life magazine. Congratulations to the Honourable John Tory O Ont ’72 .
School in Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham, Michigan. Founded in 1941, Roeper is the oldest preschool through grade 12 school for gifted students in the U.S. Oliver Jerschow ’92
Congratulations to the Honourable Jill Miriam Copeland ’85, a Judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Toronto, for her new appointment as a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. We wish her the best in her new role.
took the helm as the Chief Administrative Officer of the Town of Innisfil last fall, building on his previous work as Vice President, Employer and Stakeholder Relations at the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System and multiple roles at the Province of Ontario.
Christopher Federico ’91 is appointed
University of British Columbia professor Kai Chan ’93 is newly appointed as a
the new Head of School at The Roeper
// The incredible story and antidiscrimination trailblazing of Dr. Irene Cybulsky ’78 were featured in Toronto Life. She was the first woman to head a cardiac surgery division in Canada. Seven years later, when she was dismissed from this role at Hamilton Health Sciences, she filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and represented herself. She left medicine and studied law. Last year the Tribunal ruled that Cybulsky had experienced discrimination based on her gender. Now qualified as a lawyer, Cybulsky hopes her perseverance and success will inspire others to confront implicit biases and expectations that continue to disadvantage female leaders.
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Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Re-Wilding and Social-Ecological Transformation. His research seeks to find ways to transform ecosystems so they can survive and thrive amidst climate change. She’s leading the way! Congrats to UTSAA Treasurer Sara Son Hing ’97
for being named one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada for 2021 by the Women’s Executive Network in the emerging leaders category for her work at RBC as Vice President of Retail Delivery Model and Advisor Role Strategy. Noel Semple ’98 is
running as the Ontario Liberal Party candidate in Etobicoke Centre for the provincial election. He is currently a professor at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. As an outlet for the challenges of working in medicine during the pandemic, pediatrician Dr. Rachel Barrett ’06 joined Voices Rock Medicine, a choir of women physicians. This spring, she took part in the choir’s incredible
