CNSA Environmental Award

I am truly honored to be the recipient of a 2023 CNF student award. As a self-proclaimed environmentalist and student member of the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE), I am especially proud to be the recipient of the 2023 CNSA Environmental Award. 

Following a brief career as a mining engineer and having the privilege to visit many marginalized pan-Canadian communities, I chose to pivot drastically and pursue a career in nursing. Witnessing the many injustices and determinants of health laid bare and exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, I felt a great desire to do more to help those most in need. I remain greatly interested in applying a holistic nursing lens to healthy public policies regarding housing instability, food insecurity, and planetary health. 

Being privileged and passionate about upstream, preventative community/public health nursing, I feel an intrinsic personal responsibility to advocate for those most vulnerable and oppressed in the communities I serve. Through this CNF student award, I will be better positioned financially to complete my baccalaureate nursing education at St. Francis Xavier University and help reciprocate to create more healthy and sustainable communities here in Nova Scotia.