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Trudeau foundation brings luminaries to city conference
Some of Canada's smartest people are in Winnipeg for the next three days.
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation's seventh annual conference begins this evening, and continues through Saturday with speakers, panels and workshops on human rights issues.
The foundation will also present its four latest $225,000 fellowships.
The foundation boasts 18 Manitobans among its members, including nine Trudeau Scholars.
One of those scholars is Martine August, a graduate of Gordon Bell High School and the University of Winnipeg, who's conducting doctoral research into the social implications of public housing redevelopment.
Jason Morris-Jung attended École Centrale in Transcona, and he's now doing his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley researching the effects on communities displaced by conservation measures.
Minnawaanagogiizhigook (Dawnis Kennedy), a member of Roseau River First Nation who grew up in Brandon, is doing her PhD in law at the University of Toronto, where her thesis examines Anishinabe law.
Prateep Nayak is pursuing a PhD in natural resources and environmental management at the University of Manitoba. His research has taken him to India, where Nayak is studying the implications of ecological sustainability on fishing communities.
Manitoba's connections to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation:
Trudeau Board: Em�ëke Szathmáry
Trudeau Members: Patricia Bovey
Trudeau Fellows: Steven Loft, Clare Bradford, Constance Backhouse
Trudeau Mentors: Nola-Kate Seymoar, Lloyd Axworthy, Arthur John Hanson, Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Trudeau Scholars: Simon Thibault, Jeremy Schmidt, Martine August, David Theodore, Shauna Labman, Jason-Morris Jung, Samuel Spiegel, Prateep Nayak, Dawnis Kennedy.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition November 18, 2010 A9
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