The Internship Offices Network is pleased to announce the 3 McGill students who will be joining the 2022 Pathy Fellowship Cohort!
Félix Aupalu (McGill, Faculty of Arts, BA 21)
Community: Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic (Puvirnituq, Nunavik, Québec), Montreal, Canada
Initiative Synopsis: Inuit Youth Collaborating for a Bright Future
My initiative has a very clear and concise goal. I want to host small events and gatherings (online and in-person) that allow Inuit youth to share and discuss important topics and subjects; my initiative will aim to create spaces that encourage togetherness, celebrates excellence, and contributes to our vision of our future. By creating these spaces for Inuit youth, this project will address our community’s ability to feel heard, collaborate on solutions, heal through community, and share stories of success. The gatherings will be both formal and informal in a way, and will be informed both by traditional and contemporary methods of community building.
Attou Mamat (McGill, Faculty of Law, BCL/JD)
Community: Montreal Steppers, Montreal, Canada
Initiative Synopsis: Practicing Transformative Justice Through Art
My initiative is a participatory art-based workshop program to introduce young Tioh;tia:ke/Montreal students to the feminist, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive principles of transformative justice. Although schools would serve as entry points for this program, my hope is for the project to be expanded to other community spaces where youths gather. Through poetry, dance, visual arts, and more, this project would help young people in Tioh;tia:ke/Montreal, with particular attention given to Black, Indigenous, and other racialized youths, develop the tools they need to provide care to each other and their communities.
Jackie Stendel (McGill, Faculty of Arts, MA Education and Society)
Community: At-risk youth, LOVE, Montreal, Canada
Initiative Synopsis: Art and Environmental Belonging with At-Risk Youth
My initiative is to introduce a program that explores social and environmental sustainability with at-risk youth through transformative social engagement. The program will engage youth by looking at the multifaceted nature of the climate crisis, possibilities to form reciprocal and grateful relationships with nature and methods of fighting for sustainability with art-creation methods. Through art-making and leadership activities, youth will find personal connections to environmental issues, form relationships to local ecologies, develop meaningful communities and work as a leader to inspire others.
More details about all fellows and their projects can be found on this page: https://coady.stfx.ca/2022-23-pathy-foundation-fellows/