Mahon elected chancellor of U of M

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Anne Mahon has been elected as the new chancellor of the University of Manitoba.

She will be installed in the position at the spring convocation in June 2019.

Mahon will serve a three year term and succeeds current chancellor, Dr. Harvey Secter. The chancellor is the ceremonial head of the university, responsible for conferring all degrees and diplomas.

Mahon holds a bachelor of human ecology from the University of Manitoba. She is an oral history writer who has published two books: Redemption: Stories of Hope, Resilience and Life After Gangs, and The Lucky Ones: African Refugees’ Stories of Extraordinary Courage.

She also volunteers with Humankind International, Immigrant Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba, and other organizations. She is the founder of the Book Mates Books Club at the Women’s Correction Centre.

“I know the University of Manitoba as a graduate, a parent, a donor, and a Manitoban,” Mahon said in a statement. “This institution offers the power of education and opportunity, while being an indispensable intellectual contributor and employer to our city and province. The university’s diversity and inclusion, its possibilities of hope, and its efforts as a catalyst for broad-minded thinking are of great importance to me.”