How To Build An Education: Lin Kobayashi Dances Her Way to Change
By Heloise Nicholl Lin Kobayashi (Year 18/1993, Japan) could never have known the twists and turns her life would take when she was accepted to a prestigious Tokyo high school in the summer of 1990. The smart girl from Tokyo had joined an institution that was famous...
Measuring Climate Change in Real Time: A Tribute to Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
With the recent passing of Pearson alum Geert Jan van Oldenborgh (YR 5/1980, The Netherlands) and the world’s attention on COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, we wanted to share an original and timely feature-length story about GJ’s work as a...
First-ever Alumni-powered Virtual Reunion and Festival a “Screening” Success
Contributed Article The inaugural Pearson Alumni Reunion & Festival took place virtually on Sept. 17-25, 2021, leveraging Zoom and social media, to bring together over 600 Pearson alums, and leaders, patrons, and members of the Pearson College UWC global...
A Liberating Legacy Choice
Like many Pearson alumni, Mike Zryd’s (Year 7/1982, Canada-NS) time on the Pearson campus would never have been possible without a full scholarship. Now a Film Studies professor at York University in Toronto, Mike weaves his UWC perspective into his research and...