Here are a few of the students who have taken advantage of the King’s Experiential Learning Programs, and the wide range of opportunities they enjoyed.
Chase Fitzgerald, BJ(Hons)’23, was drawn to Liberal Arts Passport to Innovation© (LAPI) by her desire to pivot from her studies in journalism. She landed ongoing employment at ExperiencePoint that blended the skills she’d learned with her emerging interests, first as a Product Content Strategist, then Junior Content Writer, and now as a Content Strategist.
Leah Chambers, BA,’25, took LAPI in her second year of Philosophy and History of Science and secured a summer job that turned into continuous employment and a job upon graduation at a space start-up (eg. satellites) Galaxia Mission Systems. She launched the Pulsar Institute to promote careers related to space while still a BA student. In high school, Chambers was an alum of King’s Humanities for Young People program.
Nerissa (Xiaoning) Zhang, BA(Hons),’23, graduated from Classics and Philosophy and landed multiple high-quality, full-time offers immediately upon graduation, choosing a role as an Assistant Project Manager at Colliers Project Leaders | Canada.
Lucretia Groff, BA,’23, spent her summer after the Passport program at CUT Carbon Distributed and is now balancing roles at both Tangible Words Ltd. Words, a scale growth agency, and the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance.
Samantha Sumner, BA(Hons),’23, secured work upon graduation as a Research Associate at Research Nova Scotia and has recently moved into a new role as Client Experience Lead at R*Studios.
Rachel Meyerowitz, BA(Hons),’24, gained work experience with Books by Heart, a clinical trial in a hospital ward during her degree. She is now Global Engagements Coordinator at JCC Budapest – Bálint Ház.
Zoe Schacter-Beiles, a BJ(Hons) student, also worked on Books by Heart and completed a qualitative data analysis, learning about the patient experience on a post-pandemic cardiology ward. She also spent a summer working in the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub.
Nicole Ponto, BSc’23, another Books by Heart team member, analyzed quantitative data from the cardiology study patients to understand how mental health tracks from admission to discharge and beyond, including the silent patient who withdraws from the study. Ponto won the best cardiology poster at Dalhousie’s Cardiac Sciences Research Day.
Morag Brown, currently a Contemporary Studies student, is working for the Connective Tissue Clinic funded by Research Nova Scotia. The data showed that among aortic aneurysm patients, 30% of family members are also at risk. Brown designed a study to learn more about how and why aortic aneurysm patients have been successful or not in convincing family members to be screened. She hopes to create an online toolbox to help, and a national patient advocacy group has already offered to host it.
Samantha Flood, BA(Hons),’25, graduated in Contemporary Studies and Political Science and is now working as a Research Consultant at the The Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security.
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