More than schoolwork inspires winners of awards for student life

 

Convocation includes a number of special awards given to students who have excelled not only academically but also in their involvement in the community.

Here are this year’s winners.

Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal

Johanne Savoy will receive the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for her remarkable record of social activism.

Over her four years in an Honours Anthropology program, she has been active in Amnesty International.

Through the activist group Uberculture, she brought fair trade coffee to Java U and Café Sebastopol.

As a native of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, Johanne got involved in the struggle to unionize the Walmart megastore in Jonquière.

She also took part in the making of the Wal-Tour documentary last summer by a group of students organized by Uberculture.

Concordia Medal

Bilal Hamideh will receive the Concordia Medal. He was able to maintain excellent marks and a heavy course load while doing many things, always, according to his nominators, with a cheerful, calm and reasonable attitude.

He was vice-president academic of the Arts and Science Federation of Associations, and he was head of the large and very active Muslim Students Association.

Bilal was also active with the Concordia Student Union Advocacy Centre, which goes to bat for students in difficulty.

Malone Medal

Maya Chivi, who was very active as co-president of CISA, the Concordia International Students Association, will be given the Malone Medal for her efforts in organizing lively activities that made a big difference to students far from home.

O’Brien Medal

Shannon Lynch will receive the O’Brien Medal, which is focused on outreach to the external community.

A student in Music and Theatre, he performs in local theatre, and took a principal role in the school production of The Gospel at Colonus.

He has also worked as a counsellor at the NDG Y and took a role in meditation retreats.