What if you had the chance to bring together Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s best and brightest young people 카지노 게임 컬렉션 not an established group, but up-and-comers, people who you felt could really make a difference in the years to come?
Several years ago, Bruce Alexander came up with the idea, and today the retired Toronto lawyer has created what may be a world-changing 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and definitely a life-changing 카지노 게임 컬렉션 venture for a group of young Canadian women. Alexander has dubbed them 카지노 게임 컬렉션the Shadow Cabinet,카지노 게임 컬렉션 and they카지노 게임 컬렉션re a group of young people from a broad range of cultures and backgrounds. He has assigned himself the task of cultivating and mentoring them in hopes they will then strike out on their own to help change their communities, society, and the world.
Alexander comes to his latest mentoring role with a lifetime of experience in law, business, the public sector, and volunteerism. To name just a few of his accomplishments, in addition to earning his Commerce undergrad degree at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s and law degree from the U of T, this longtime member of the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 Board of Trustees served as an assistant deputy minister in the Ontario government in both the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Ministry of Community and Social Services. On the federal scene, during the negotiation of the Charlottetown Accord, he was Special Adviser to Joe Clark, the then-Minister for Constitutional Affairs. Since 1999, Alexander has been vice-chair of the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal. He카지노 게임 컬렉션s also a founding director of the John Howard Society of Toronto and has been deeply involved in mentoring young people especially through the Community Foundation set up by John Brooks, LLD카지노 게임 컬렉션92, to provide scholarships to visible minority youths in Toronto.
It was with the latter organization that Alexander felt the desire to take mentorship to another more strategic level. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I wanted to work with kids who had leadership potential, not only in their own communities, but in the broader Canadian context,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I wanted to give them the connections and confidence I had when I was their age to allow them to achieve their potential.카지노 게임 컬렉션
So Alexander selected four young women he felt were compatible, who demonstrated leadership potential, and who showed an interest in public service. He then told them their job was to expand the group and to reach out to others whom they felt met certain criteria. 카지노 게임 컬렉션They had to be comfortable with diversity, work well with groups, have an ambition to change the world outside of business, and maybe make their careers in politics or NGOs,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he explains.
And that was how The Shadow Cabinet (TSC) was born.
As the original four added new members, the group soon grew to 15. Some are studying medicine or law. Others are more interested in the social sciences. Alexander wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t aiming at an all-female group, but it evolved that way. He카지노 게임 컬렉션s now in the process of recruiting a second group comprised of men.
카지노 게임 컬렉션One of the things we share, though we're all very different, is our desire to put our talents, skills, and energy back into the community and to provide for others those opportunities we've been given.카지노 게임 컬렉션
The key components of TSC activities are mentorship, professional development, networking, and building broader connections. Not only does Alexander mentor and support the group카지노 게임 컬렉션s members himself, but he gives them opportunities to meet with distinguished and influential individuals who can also serve as mentors. So far, the group has met prominent Canadians such as former Prime Minister Joe Clark, former Speaker of the House Peter Milliken, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션68, and Senate Majority Leader Marjory LeBreton (Con. 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Cape Breton), to name a few. Members have attended Question Period in Parliament and toured the Supreme Court of Canada, taken etiquette and career management seminars, and enjoyed theatre performances together.
Right now, the groups카지노 게임 컬렉션 members all hail from Toronto and Ottawa, and that makes it possible for them to meet in person. Alexander says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s created a network of peers. This group of 15 is becoming an important thing in their lives, in terms of changing their lives.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Safiah Chowdhury, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션11, is one member of the Shadow Cabinet. A Political Studies-Global Development major, she served as AMS president in 2010-2011 카지노 게임 컬렉션 some 50 years after Bruce Alexander held the same job. That카지노 게임 컬렉션s something that drew the two together when they met at a Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s reunion. Safiah is effusive in her praise of both the group and Alexander. 카지노 게임 컬렉션We카지노 게임 컬렉션re all young and at different places in our careers,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션yet we all share a vision for improving our own community in our own way. Our cohesive bond is that we all know Bruce카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and clearly admire him.
She says the women in the Cabinet all have very different interests, but they share a common purpose: to use their skills and talents to improve their communities. 카지노 게임 컬렉션The Shadow Cabinet opens up possibilities to work together and share ideas. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s the kind of work that doesn카지노 게임 컬렉션t get a lot of praise but it카지노 게임 컬렉션s so crucial.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Chowdhury remembers experiencing some challenges at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s that stemmed from her Bengali race and her Muslim faith. However, she was pleasantly surprised about the progressive views held by politicians and others the group has met. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Based on my discussions, I find people who카지노 게임 컬렉션ve been in power a lot more amenable to the ideas I propose than my undergraduate counterparts were. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s surprising, but reassuring.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Chowdhury카지노 게임 컬렉션s TSC friend Sarah Yun, an Oxford grad now in second-year law studies at the U of T, shares Chowdhury카지노 게임 컬렉션s sentiments. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Joe Clark really understood the minority perspective that we were bringing, and he wanted to talk to us about it,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve been pleasantly surprised that everyone we have met has been so open. I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve also been surprised how these people are happy to take our questions and want to hear from us.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Clearly, Alexander has chosen their contacts as wisely as he chose the Cabinet members.
Yun praises the diversity of TSC. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I think most of us are first-generation or second-generation immigrants, but although we카지노 게임 컬렉션re very close to our own cultures we카지노 게임 컬렉션re very committed to Canadian culture and to learning more about each other and supporting each other in our careers and lives.카지노 게임 컬렉션
In fact, every member of the Shadow Cabinet has a background very different from the others. Alexander says he and his initial recruits purposely set out to find additional members who were first-generation Canadians.
카지노 게임 컬렉션We deliberately wanted to give them a leg up and to create for them the environment of a third- or fourth-generation Canadian who has established networks, understands how things happen, has the benefit of mentors and extended family who have helped them with their careers.카지노 게임 컬렉션
For Yun who grew up in the U.S. and moved to Toronto in her high school years, the Shadow Cabinet has opened doors she might never have stepped through otherwise. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I can카지노 게임 컬렉션t even think of any way that I카지노 게임 컬렉션d have these opportunities to speak with people who have enjoyed such successful careers.카지노 게임 컬렉션 She includes Bruce Alexander in that group. She says meeting him has been a life-changing experience. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Politics was not my first choice, but being exposed to such a wonderful mentor makes me think about possibilities that hadn카지노 게임 컬렉션t occurred to me,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says.
Alexander has attempted to introduce the young women not only to powerful and influential men, but also to women who have overcome the odds to triumph in their fields. Yun was very inspired by her meeting with Mary Anne Chambers (Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Executive Management카지노 게임 컬렉션95), a former Ontario MPP and cabinet minister and later a business woman who has also been active as a volunteer. Yun says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션She was a great person to have speak to us. We could really learn from her experiences.카지노 게임 컬렉션
No less inspiring was Senator LeBreton, whom Yun says succeeded when there weren카지노 게임 컬렉션t as many opportunities for women.
Shadow Cabinet members have a chance to keep in touch with the people they카지노 게임 컬렉션ve met. Yun says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s not just a one-time meeting 카지노 게임 컬렉션 I know I have potential mentors out there.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Not only do Shadow Cabinet members have each other and a desire to be supportive as each strikes out on her own, but there카지노 게임 컬렉션s a yearning to do the same for others.
Says Yun, 카지노 게임 컬렉션One of the things we share, though we카지노 게임 컬렉션re all very different, is our desire to put our talents, skills, and energy back into the community and to provide for others those opportunities we카지노 게임 컬렉션ve been given. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s almost a pay-it-forward situation. We카지노 게임 컬렉션re empowered by what Bruce has given to us and we hope to do that for others as well.카지노 게임 컬렉션
