Ivana Okaro

2024 McCall MacBain Scholar

McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,

Education:
University of Calgary (BSc'24)

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

A neuroscience student at the University of Calgary, Ivana launched the local chapter of the Canadian Association for Girls in Science to encourage girls and gender-diverse youth to pursue science. She leads a team of science student ambassadors on campus, runs a website for minority science students, and operates a business crafting wigs for clients. Ivana also volunteers at a hospital. She will continue her studies in either neuroscience or surgical and interventional sciences at McGill.

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The McCall MacBain Scholarship is a full graduate scholarship that provides students with the mentorship, interdisciplinary learning, and global community they need to accelerate their impact on the world.

McCall MacBain Scholarships at McGill is situated on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations.