More than 5,200 students to graduate at Uwindsor spring convocation
More than 5,200 students will graduate this spring during the University of Windsor's convocation ceremonies.
The convocations, the 119th for the university, will run May 30 to June 2 at the Toldo Lancer Centre.
Uwindsor will also present four honorary degrees during convocations.
Danielle Campo Mcleod is the mental health lead for the Windsor-essex Catholic District School Board. She is a three-time Paralympic swimming gold medallist, recipient of the Order of Ontario and the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award, and author of a memoir called Resurrections: My Will to Survive is Olympian.
She will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree May 30 at 9:30 a.m.
Joseph Comartin, a former lawyer and MP for Windsor-tecumseh from 2000-2015, will receive a doctor of laws degree May 30 at 2 p.m.
Comartin helped found the CAW Legal Services Plan. As an MP, he was Opposition House leader and deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, and was recognized three times by fellow MPS as Canada's most knowledgeable parliamentarian.
After teaching at Uwindsor from 2016-18, Comartin served as the consul general of Canada in Detroit for Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.
Cheryl Perera, founder of Onechild, which combats the sexual exploitation of children, will receive a doctor of laws degree May 31 at 2 p.m.
After taking part in a sting operation as a teenager that helped to apprehend a child sex predator, Perera's career has spanned 23 countries. She has interviewed children in red-light districts and brothels, joined law enforcement missions, pioneered Canada's first prevention education program for schools and has provided shelter and care to hundreds of child victims in Asia.
Myrna Kicknosway, an elder-in-residence at Windsor Law, visiting elder at Western University and Midewiwin of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge, is Bodawatomi/odawa Anishinaabe Kwe of the Loon Clan at Walpole Island First Nation.
Kicknosway has worked in education, counselling, economic and employment planning, federal corrections, environmental activism and community development.
She shares her expertise in Indigenous culture and traditions with younger generations.
She will receive a doctor of laws degree June 2 at 2 p.m.
Convocation sessions will be livestreamed on Uwindsor's Youtube channel.