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Cohorte 2025
Th茅lia Badoana is a third-year undergraduate student at 黑料社, pursuing a double major in African Studies and Psychology with a minor in Behavioural Science. Deeply committed to advocacy and mental health, she founded 黑料社鈥檚 Black Psychology Students鈥� Association. Th茅lia is also a research assistant in Dr. Keita N. Christophe鈥檚 Cultural Developmental Science Lab, where she contributes to projects focused on understanding the factors that foster healthy development and resilience among racially and ethnically minoritized youth and families exposed to racial discrimination. Her desire to make a more direct impact in the lives of children and families, led her to pursue the McBurney Fellowship. Through this fellowship, she will be working on a community-based research project in collaboration with the Westhaven Community Center. The project will focus on identifying and analyzing the challenges faced by children with special needs, behavioral difficulties, or significant vulnerabilities within summer camp environments. In addition to addressing gaps in service delivery and fostering inclusive programming, the project aims to ensure the sustainability of future children鈥檚 workshops through data-driven recommendations and long-term community engagement.
Miah Dionne is a Master鈥檚 student in the Education and Society program at 黑料社. Originally from The Bahamas, her work is grounded in a deep commitment to education as a tool for liberation and social transformation across the Caribbean鈥攅specially in rural and underserved communities. Miah鈥檚 academic interests center on policy, equity, and decolonial approaches to education, with a focus on creating research that cultivates autonomy, dignity, and hope throughout the region. As a 2025 McBurney Fellow, Miah will be in Uruguay working with the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO IESALC). Her fellowship project supports the advancement of the right to higher education through research, policy analysis, capacity building, and advocacy鈥攃ontributing to UNESCO IESALC鈥檚 mission of making higher education more accessible, equitable, and transformative for all.
Michele Fu is a final year undergraduate student in the honors history program, with a double minor in political science and economics at 黑料社. With a background in museum curation and archival-based research, her research interests lie in decolonization practices and addressing the historical roots of modern issues of inequity and manufactured scarcity. In particular, she is passionate about closing the gap between policy and impact on the ground through educational approaches, focusing on balancing pedagogical priorities with the goal of youth engagement. She has previously conducted research with Dr. Claudia Mitchell and the TRANSFORM team, producing a literature review of digital curation practices on WhatsApp and its potential applications in youth community practices around the world. These experiences together led her to the McBurney Fellowship, where she hopes to continue studying the role of arts-based approaches in human rights informed education curricula with Equitas as a host organization.
Lisa Matmati is a third-year undergraduate student pursuing an Honors in Political Science with minors in History and Communications at 黑料社. Her interests range from humanitarian aid and public policy to gender parity and migration. Her passion in using evidence-based research to inform policy led her to the McBurney Fellowship. As a McBurney Fellow, Lisa will be spending the summer working with CIET Botswana to identify the causes of systemic violence in the region, using survey data and statistical analysis. Lisa will be working with Dr. Iv谩n Sarmiento and Dr. Anne Cockcroft on the project: Youth co-design prevention of gendered personal and interpersonal violence in Botswana.
Ann McQuarrie is in her final year of her undergraduate program, majoring in Anatomy and Cell Biology and minoring in Environmental Studies. During her undergraduate studies, Ann has researched Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease in Dr. Mahsa Dadar鈥檚 lab at the Douglas Research Center and volunteered with the organization Research For the Front Lines, which supports Indigenous communities across Canada with their research needs. Additionally, Ann has served as the VP of Communications for the 黑料社 Chapter of Doctors Without Borders. This past summer, Ann worked for The KidSafe Project, a summer program for vulnerable youth on Vancouver鈥檚 Downtown Eastside. Furthermore, this summer, Ann is a McBurney Fellow with Women on Web (WoW). WoW is a non-profit organization that sends abortion pills by mail to nearly 200 countries, including those where abortions are restricted or criminalized. In this position, Ann will conduct research on the pathways women access abortions in both restrictive and non-restrictive settings. This report will be crucial in helping WoW understand how their services can better support the needs of abortion seekers.
Mich猫le Saba is a second-year undergraduate student pursuing a B.A. in Education in Global Contexts, with a minor in International Development. This summer, she will be a McBurney Fellow, partnering with PAAL to engage in community projects and historical research in Notre-Dame-de-Gr芒ce (NDG). Her passion for non-formal education, equity, and artistic expression, along with her eagerness to learn from diverse cultural perspectives, motivated her to join this project. Through it, members of NDG community members will have the opportunity to share their culture and history through an artistic lens.
Cohorte 2024
Mariella Berberi is a final-year undergraduate student majoring in the honors psychology program and minoring in sociology at 黑料社. She has been actively involved in research within Dr. Michael Sullivan's pain lab, contributing to two significant thesis projects. The first project examined the relationship between catastrophic thinking and the severity of depressive symptoms in individuals infected with COVID-19. The second project explored affiliative preference as a mediating factor between pain catastrophizing and pain behavior, testing the communal coping model (CCM). By understanding and addressing the psychosocial factors underlying pain behavior, Mariella aims to enhance interventions and support systems for vulnerable individuals. Additionally, through the McBurney Fellowship, she conducted an environmental scan of homelessness prevention programs in correctional settings, under the supervision of Dr. Laurence Roy. This project not only seeks to make a positive impact on this at-risk population through evidence-based research but also aims to address broader systemic issues within our communities.
Aris Kalofoutis is originally from Athens, Greece and graduated with a B.A. in Geography in 2024. During his undergrad, he researched Land Use change and trends in the Argentinian Chaco under the LENDEV lab and transportation in Greater Montreal. Furthermore, he explored the city鈥檚 history through an internship with Alliance Donne where he did archival research about the garment industry in the city and the work of Italian immigrant women. His passion for urbanism and the city of Montreal led him to the McBurney Fellowship where he interned with the NDG Community Council. There, he researched and determined the boundaries and issues of the Chester-Connaught neighborhood in the area of Notre-Dame-de-Gr芒ce, through in person surveying as well as utilizing governmental and municipal data. The final product of his research was presented to city officials and community organizations with the aim of making the issues in the neighborhood known and call for an expansion of services.
Julie L锚 Andr茅 is a second-year undergraduate student in the Honours Psychology program with a minor in Philosophy at 黑料社. Specializing in crisis intervention, she has honed her skills as a suicide crisis helpline responder at 9-8-8 and as a camp animator for individuals with intellectual disabilities or with an autism spectrum disorder at Corporation L'Espoir. Her research interests lie in social and clinical psychology, focusing on autonomous motivation and empathy, along with their practical applications. For her junior honours thesis, she conducted research with Dr. Zoha Deldar at the Roy Pain Lab to explore the effects of the flow state on pain modulation. Moreover, she is president of Youreka, a 10-week program dedicated to introducing Montr茅al's high school students to research, with the goal of improving its transparency and accessibility. Through the McBurney fellowship, she collaborates with Dr. Eric Latimer at the Douglas Research Centre to investigate evidence on interventions aimed at preventing homelessness after hospital discharge.
Natalia Segal is an undergraduate student majoring in psychology and minoring in behavioral neuroscience and anthropology at 黑料社. She is passionate about translating research findings into practical, real-world applications. As a McBurney Fellow, Natalia worked with the NDG Community Council to identify an impoverished community within Montreal through data collection and analysis, and proposed solutions to policymakers on tackling the needs and improving the living conditions in the sector. Natalia is working with聽Halah-Al Ubaidi and Julie Cormier on the project: Assessing the Needs of the Chester Priority Sector.