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Featured Alumni

Here we feature three of our accomplished alumni.

Zoë Gross

B.A. Women's and Gender Studies (Honours) & B.A. in Conflict Resolution Studies (4-year), University of Winnipeg, 2011
M.A. candidate, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies, Carlton University

I graduated in the spring of 2011 with a 4-year Honours degree in Women's & Gender Studies and a 4-year degree in Conflict Resolution Studies. I started my Masters at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's & Gender Studies at Carleton University in September 2011 and have completed coursework primarily focused on transnational and postcolonial feminism and critical race studies. The working title of my thesis is “Constructing Whiteness and Locating Power in East Africa: Racialization, Desirability and Status of ‘Others’ with Access.”

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Jess Leppik

B.A. Women's and Gender Studies, University of Winnipeg

Since graduating with Honours in Women's and Gender Studies, I have been applying my academic background to many different endeavours. Currently, I am a Program Coordinator at Wolseley Family Place where I offer personal support around issues of domestic violence and problematic substance use as well as advocacy work and facilitating workshops. Through my work there, I have presented at the FREDA National Conference on preventing violence against women and girls, and was also one of twenty people chosen from across Canada to participate in a new initiative called Knowledge Leaders in Children's Environmental Health.

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Ariel Zylberman

B.A. Philosophy, University of Winnipeg, 2003
B.A. Philosophy and Politics, Oxford University, 2005
Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy, University of Toronto

Honours and Awards: Rhodes Scholar; Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar

One of the most formative experiences in my life was studying philosophy at the University of Winnipeg. Not only was it here that I discovered my passion for philosophy, but this passion was carefully cultivated by the program’s unique environment. Its small class sizes and easy accessibility to faculty were ideally suited to the practice of philosophy: chasing new (or very old!) and exciting ideas, critically examining your own beliefs and developing arguments for different views in conversation with others.

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Our thanks to Dr. Jack Zupko and Ariel Zylberman for their permission to use this feature of Ariel on our site.

To read about other University of Winnipeg Alumni profiled by the Department of Philosophy, please click here to go that page.