Caitlin Arizala

2026 McCall MacBain Scholar

McGill Faculty of Arts, MPP, Public Policy

Education:

University of Toronto Scarborough (BSc'24)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Caitlin is a recent Honours Bachelor of Science in Population Health graduate of the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). She works in communications for YouthREX, a research and evaluation exchange centre at York University, and runs scholaRLY, a grassroots youth research incubator she co-founded in Rexdale, Toronto.

From 2021 to 2024, Caitlin served as the community manager at The Flaunt-It Movement, co-creating a creative internship program and co-working studio as a local economic empowerment initiative. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she served as principal investigator for a COVID-19 vaccine equity project, leading a team of researchers to understand health inequity in northwest Toronto. Building on her research experience, she volunteered to evaluate undergraduate research papers at UTSC’s annual symposium. She recently completed a 10-month internship at the Ontario Legislature.

Caitlin will enter the Master of Public Policy program at McGill.