Check out some of our first-generation faculty members, staff & students!
Broderick
Ph.D., Department of Mathematics and Statistics
“As a first generation student, I am excited to go to where my parents could only hope to go. McGill will open doors for me that my family never had available to them before.”
Dennis
Associate Professor of Educational and Counselling Psychology
“I always enjoy spending time with others who are/were First Generation college students, because they are some of the most interesting, hard-working, and talented people.”
Skyla
Student in Environmental Studies
“I’m so excited to start my McGill experience after taking a year off school. I’m excited to learn about the things that I am passionate about and meeting new people!”
Yann
Student in the Faculty of Arts
“I’m really excited to study at McGill as a First-Generation Student because this university provides me a whole new experience compared to everything I’ve been through before, with so many international students around, and just an awesome atmosphere to be part of, within an awesome city to be part of as well!”
Timothy
Student Majoring in Chemistry
“I’m excited to be at McGill because it’s the first time I’ll be living alone, without friends or family in Montréal. It’ll be interesting to learn how to cope on my own, and I’m lookout forward to it!”
April
Associate Librarian
“I arrived at McGill as a First Generation student in 1993. I was both excited and terrified! It is now my great pleasure to work as a librarian in the very place that molded me into the person I am today.”