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Marie Scoretz (First Nations Child and Youth Care Dipl. ’97) has been working at the First Nations Student Services at VIU for nine years. She has two adult children and four grandchildren.
2000 s Since graduation David Bakewell (BA in Business Management ’02) has worked in various jobs in South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand. Today he is the manager and marketing director at Sahavith School, a bilingual school in central Thailand. In 2009 Laura Booi (BA with Distinction ’09) received a $17,500 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is now studying aging in her master’s degree in the health psychology graduate program at UBC. Alex Caswell (Dipl. in Applied Arts ’07) and Kristi Dupont were married in Nanaimo on March 12, 2011.
Stephanie Fink (BA in Fine Arts Transfer ’04) works in the marketing and fundraising department at the Vancouver Art Gallery and is a partner in C&S Vancouver, a design company. Her freelance projects have included the playbill for the Black Swan premier in Vancouver, a redesign of The Vancouver Opera Guild’s website and an ad for Fluevog shoes. www.stephaniefink.com
After a five-year term as Director of Community Services for the district of Taylor, Keir Gervais (Recreation Administration ’98; BA in Tourism Management ’02) returned to Vancouver Island in 2009 and is now the Director of Operations for the village of Port Alice. Johnson Ginger (Forest Resources Technology Dipl. ’06) has worked in Alaska, northern BC, and Vancouver Island as a Geographic Information System (GIS) and Forest Technologist. He’s now working with his nation the Huu-ay-aht First Nations in their Lands and Forestry department.
Jesse Crockett (BTM ’06) is Assistant Front Office Manager at the Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver, BC. He and his wife Harmony celebrated the birth of their first child, Solomon Ryder Crockett, in April 2010. Katherine Cruickshank (BA in Urban Geography ’06) is a community planner for the province of Manitoba. She is newly engaged to Chad Moir, a natural resource officer for Manitoba Conservation, and they plan to marry at Sandos Playacar in Playa del Carmen Mexico on April 19, 2012.
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