The giving season, technically, starts in the weeks leading up to the holidays. For SFU alumni working in the social good sector, it runs year-round.
From offering immersive experiential learning opportunities to fostering passionate campus communities, SFU prepares its students for a lifetime of making social change. To catch a glimpse at how SFU students translate their campus experiences into careers dedicated to creating a more inclusive future, we caught up with three alumni: Erika De Torres, Apathy is Boring’s Director of Impact and Development; Jessica Pang-Parks, Crohn’s and Colitis Canada’s Director of Volunteer Engagement and Innovation; and Rian Bevan, Four Our Future’s Lead Innovation Researcher.
In Rian Bevan’s first years at SFU, he knew he wanted to study something that would help him do good in the world—he just liked too many subjects to pick one to major in. Everything came...
Shortly after starting graduate school, Jessica Pang-Parks realized the laboratory wasn’t for her. “Two weeks in, I was like ‘wow, I want to work with people, not algae,’...
Erika De Torres remembers the moment clearly: it was 2004, she was 12 years old and, after watching a fateful news segment on television, she understood the kind of difference she wanted to make in...