Safiyyah Kathrada is a South African-born Canadian, who came back to school to complete her Adult Grad Diploma, 30 + years after leaving school and raising her children. In 2020, she graduated from the Camosun Adult Grad Diploma program and received the Colin Montesano Memorial award in 2019 from the School of Access at Camosun. She registered and began the Community, Family and Child Studies (CFCS) program in Fall 2021 as a part-time student, a natural pathway to 17+ years of volunteer community service within the Muslim community of Victoria and Vancouver, BC. She hopes to Graduate in Fall 2024 and to work in helping women and youth from ethnic and marginalized communities in the greater society in the future.
Dakota Knull is a dual citizen of the United States of America, and Canada. Interested in art and animal welfare, Dakota entered the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta with hopes to achieve a degree in biology. Shortly after her first year, she took an ‘intro to psychology’ class as an elective and found the study of brain and behaviour far more interesting than identifying microscope slides of paramecium, earning a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology with a minor in Religious Studies and concentration in the Islamic Tradition in 2020. Moving to Victoria, B.C. for the work opportunities and the fair weather, Dakota now studies at Camosun College and is working on a diploma in Community Family and Child Studies and continues to practice art in her downtime, expanding her advocacy to include Indigenous, reproductive and racial rights, social justice and animal and ecological activism.