Featured Alumni
Get to know our OISE alumni and see how they stand out in professions across the globe. Would you like to be featured? Email us at alumni.oise@utoronto.ca and we will help tell your story.
Meet Adam Benn, a new OISE grad – and Black, queer role model for Toronto’s LGBT2SQ community.
Figuring out how to permit open fires on hospital grounds in Toronto is a large task. Still, it’s the kind of bureaucratic challenge OISE alumna Diane Longboat has specialized in throughout her career.
Cathy Crowe, an OISE alum and well-known Toronto street nurse and activist, was among 47 invested into the Order of Canada.
Li is President of China Education Channels and Chair of the OISE Alumni Association in China. He has been a leader in educational media for over a decade.
Scholarships can inspire students to believe they can make a difference. For Atik Bird, it helped her reach out to others – and trust her own voice.
When Chizoba Imoka moved to Canada from Nigeria at 16, she discovered that Canada, like her own country, had a history as an oppressor of this land’s First Peoples. Now the PhD grad thinks other newcomers should know this painful truth about their adopted homeland.
It is finding the beauty in the everyday and urbane that writer Kyo Maclear captures so well in her book, Birds Art Life, which centres on one year in the OISE alum's life: a devastating one in which she watches her father – an award-winning war reporter – lose his independence and dignity after suffering two strokes.
Meet Tamara, Aisha and Shaun, three OISE graduates profiled in the video series, “With OISE I Can.”
Mary Elizabeth Picher (MEd 2013 OISE) is the co-founder and educational director of Wholeplay, which offers parent-child classes that combine music, dance and play activities for babies, and child-rearing tips and insights for moms and dads.
When Sabrina Ramnanan enrolled in the School of Continuing Studies’ Creative Writing Program in 2010, doors started swinging open. There, Ramnanan (OISE BEd 2006), whose parents grew up in Trinidad, began her first novel.
Child psychologist and mother Jillian Roberts found it difficult to explain the birds and the bees to her eldest daughter without “describing too much.” That's how her The Facts of Life app came to be.
From Moneyball to Life of Pi, OISE alum Mychael Danna has put his composing talents to evocative use in a wide array of acclaimed and popular films. Many of his film scores have been issued as albums.
