Sebastian Lora, BA in Sociology (2020)

I'm beyond grateful that I had the opportunity to learn Sociology at Kwantlen and to be able to learn from and connect with a pretty incredible faculty. If you'd have told me five years ago that I would get my first choice Master's program on the first try (let alone at the University of Toronto's OISE - the country's top research facility and institution in the study of education, fourth in the entire world!), I might laugh and say that's crazy - and that is exactly what I said all those years ago every single time my professors insisted I could do whatever I put my mind to and that I could accomplish anything I wanted. Professors like Seema Ahluwalia, Amir Mirfakhraie, Melinda Kachina Bige, and Kyle Mitchell believed in me enough to compensate tenfold in times when I wasn't certain of myself, when I felt unworthy, or when I was settling for less. I have nothing but gratitude to all my professors, to the Sociology and Indigenous Studies faculties and to the school for helping me find my path and giving me the tools to walk it with confidence, and style.