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Alumni Impact
Note on graduation year: we use a “Pearson Year” system to mark each graduating batch. The very first cohort of students graduated in 1976 and are known as Year 1, with the next cohort being Year 2, and so on…

Marianne Alto (Year 2/1977)
Victoria City Councillor; Principal of Azimuth Research and Consulting
First elected as a city councillor for Victoria, B.C. in 2010, Marianne is a Pearson alumna who still lives in the closest major city to campus. She values effective public involvement to make cities healthier, safer and happier environments by championing walking, cycling and public transit. Marianne says her Pearson experience helped her develop skills as both a councillor and a facilitator. More >

Dr. Evan Adams (Year 9/1984)
Canadian actor and Deputy Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia

Christina Foerch (Year 14/1989)
Founder of Fighters for Peace

Ramy Adeeb (Year 21/1996)
Founder/CEO of social curation platform Snip.it

Robin Wettlaufer (Year 19/1994)
Canada's special envoy to Syria

Yuen Pau Woo (Year 6/1981)
Canadian Senator

Meera Gandhi (Year 7/1982)
Founder and CEO of The Giving Back Foundation

Abiodun Williams (Year 4/1979)
Former President of The Hague Institute for Global Justice in The Hague, Netherlands

Todd Sampson (Year 14/1989)
Award-winning documentary-maker, television presenter and former CEO of Leo Burnett Australia

Peter Sands (Year 6/1981)
Executive Director at Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria & former CEO of Standard Charter Bank

Anne Enright (Year 6/1981)
2007 Man Booker Prize-winning novelist

Lene Espersen (Year 9/1984)
Former Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Deputy Prime Minister
Alumni News
African Alumni and Students Reach Across the Decades
By Benoît Charlebois, Alumni and Community Engagement Director It all began during an informal conversation, late in November, between old Pearson College UWC friends and classmates from Africa, wondering how they could possibly help current African students at the...
New Board Directors Bring Experience, Diversity…and Personal Memories of Campus
The volunteer Board of Directors of Pearson College UWC this month welcomed three new Directors who are each highly-accomplished in their respective fields, represent a welcome diversity of perspectives and bring to the Directors’ (virtual) conference table an...
“60s Boost” – A Class Year Scholarship success!
The sense of joy in community in the midst of the pandemic of this year’s 40th reunion group was very strong – and so was the sense that this was a moment that could be turned into action.