Career Conference
At the 2021 CHS Career Conference, Grade 11 and 12 students had the chance to spend the afternoon with alumnae, parents, and past parents who generously shared their thoughts and expertise with senior students as they consider their next steps and career paths.
Presenter Bios
Following the keynote presentation, students were invited to select a topic in each of three 40-minute sessions over the afternoon on the theme of "Balance and Wellbeing". Each session had up to 15 panels to choose from, led by alumnae, parents of current and past students, and community connections. Topics ranged from Architecture & Planning to Health Sciences, Business, Technology, Communications, and more. Students had the chance to hear how panelists cut their paths, and to ask questions that will help shape their own.
We thank all those who volunteered for their time and passion!
- Keynote Speaker: Ida Templeton
- Vinita Banthia ’07
- Joanna Binetter ’99
- Victoria Chan ’08
- Shuo Chen ’10
- Melody Cheung ’11
- Joanna Chu ’13
- Dr. Stephanie Chu ’00
- Damienne Darby ’87
- Natalie Douglas ’12
- Olivia Folick ’14
- Kate Gleadow ’11
- Alana Gross ’12
- Katharine Hunter-Zaworski ’73
- Sarah Kim ’14
- Lindsay Kopf ’05
- Phoebe Kut ’12
- Vanessa Lam ’11
- Alex Law ’08
- Loritta Lin ’14
- Dr. Marion MacKay-Dunn ’02
- Katie G. Mak ’05
- Jules Miller ’16
- Tricia Pang ’03
- Anita (Warbinek) Petersen ’90
- Kate Saunders ’96
- Dr. Sandra Scott ’76
- Tiffany So ’14
- Kim Turgeon CPA, CA, CISA ’94
- Vicky Wang ’10
- Jamie Wiggins ’03
- Dr. Elaine Wong ’88
Keynote Speaker: Ida Templeton
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"Progress not Perfection" is the foundation that has made me a successful Entrepreneur with a variety of different businesses. Growing up in Calgary I was raised by much older parents - they raised me the way they were raised - with an expectation that I'd take care of myself. I didn't get an allowance & figured out that if I was going to succeed it meant doing well in school, earning my independence through work which would lead to freedom & choice. (It did) I figured out in high school that "I wasn't but I was." I wasn't the smartest (my best friend Vera was), I wasn't the most athletic, wasn't the prettiest or most popular but I WAS going to succeed no matter what. If you diversify your unique skills & build your resilience, you can achieve anything. Despite not being great at math, I went into finance after university & built a great client base in Vancouver without knowing anyone. Then I built a division of other financial planners that worked for me & eventually built one of the most profitable regions in Canada. Now I manage real estate holdings & have a string of successful retail stores. I didn't plan on only one career path but I did plan my success & knew it was going to happen. A lot of challenge meant a lot of failure which led to a lot of wins. I will share the 5 keys to success & balance that have helped me every step of the way in school, work & life. I try and do what's right, the right way at the right time - Progress not Perfection! |
Vinita Banthia ’07
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Vinita Banthia is an Associate Attorney at the law firm Archer & Greiner in New Jersey, where she practices civil litigation, with a focus on environmental law. Vinita graduated from Crofton in 2007, then attended the Science One Program at UBC. After that, she obtained her JD from the University of Minnesota Law School and spent the first three years of her legal career practicing civil litigation in Minnesota. She then moved to New Jersey for a new job and to be closer to her fiancé. Vinita is also the host of the Cross Conflict Podcast by the American Red Cross's International Humanitarian Law Division. When she’s not practicing law or recording episodes of Cross Conflict, Vinita enjoys running, creating craft cocktails, and visiting art museums. Vinita lives in Philadelphia, PA, but commutes to work in New Jersey. |
Joanna Binetter ’99
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Joanna graduated from the University of British Columbia, then went on to study Law at City University in London which was followed by a masters degree in corporate and commercial law at Cornell University. After an extensive career in law which saw Joanna progress from her first job at Shearman & Sterling in New York, where she represented financial institutions and public and private corporations, she joined Japan Tobacco International in Hong Mong as their Asia Pacific Legal Counsel before joining CitiBank as the Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. In January 2016, Joanna left her legal career to join Ratana as their Head of Business Development. Joanna joined the family business to spearhead the brand’s efforts in business development and global expansion making it one of the leading outdoor furniture manufacturers in North America. Since joining Ratana, Joanna’s efforts have been focused on business development working with large institutional clients like the Marriott, Hilton, MGM hotel group, cruise lines like Royal Caribbean and Princess cruises as well as corporate coffee chains like Starbucks. Joanna has often been quoted for her expertise in design in a number of publications like the Wall Street Journal and the Vancouver Sun. Ratana is now one of the leading outdoor furniture brands in North America. |
Victoria Chan ’08
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Victoria is a Legal Consultant based in Singapore specialising in Corporate Immigration, Compliance and Employment Regulations for the APAC region. She supports clients mainly in the tech and financial sector and has held secondments to companies such as Google and currently, Adobe. She holds a Bachelors of Law (LL.B) from the University of Sussex in the UK with a study-abroad semester at Korea University in Seoul, Korea. A highlight for Victoria during her studies and career in both Europe and Asia has been the ability to travel, explore new cities/cultures and meet individuals from all around the world! In the last 2 years, in order to achieve work-life balance, she has enjoyed spending time with her toy poodle Daisy and cooking for her close friends! Living in Singapore she can also head to the beach anytime for some relaxation as it is summer weather almost year-round. Victoria is also active with the Stroke Association community in Singapore and helps to raise funds for those who have suffered from the illness and spreading awareness about Stroke. |
Shuo Chen ’10
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Shuo Chen is a General Partner at IOVC, where she focuses on early stage venture investments in Silicon Valley with a focus on future of work and enterprise/SaaS. She is also Faculty at UC Berkeley and Singularity University. Shuo is appointed by California Governor Gavin Newson to serve as 1 of 13 voting members on California's Mental Health Commission (as the first Asian American Commissioner), which includes overseeing ~$2.6 billion annually in state budget and advising the Governor or the Legislature on mental health policy. In her venture role, Shuo has invested in companies now acquired by Goldman Sachs, Ford, Caterpillar, Binance and Dialpad, as well as now unicorns including Boom, Checkr, Grubmarket, Instacart and Rescale. She has helped portfolio companies close deals with Amazon, Apple, Google, Mercedes-Benz and NASA among others, as well as scaled portfolio companies into Europe and Asia. Prior, Shuo worked at Goldman Sachs in investment banking, where she worked with clients including Alibaba and Tencent, as well as represented the firm on the Board of Women in Finance. Before that, Shuo was at PwC, where she worked on Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola and LinkedIn’s $119 million acquisition of SlideShare. Shuo has also co-authored one of the leading books on financial regulations published by Cambridge University Press in 2019, and sits on the Advisory Board of Forbes China, where she advises on content and awards for Asian Americans in North America. |
Melody Cheung ’11
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After leaving Crofton's ivy walls, Melody headed to a new set of Ivey walls - at Ivey business school at Western University! After two years in Media, Information and Technoculture, Melody completed her HBA degree at Ivey. Following graduation, Melody worked at Bell Canada where she held the roles of Pricing Specialist, Marketing Specialist, and Senior Manager of Acquisition Marketing. She is now embarking on an exciting new journey and will be moving to London (United Kingdom not Ontario!), where she will be working as a Marketing Consultant for a digital wealth management startup. Outside of work Melody enjoys rock climbing and embarrassing herself on Tik Tok. |
Joanna Chu ’13
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Joanna is a CHS alumna and graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Computer Engineering. After completing a variety of internships in Canada, Seattle, San Francisco, and Switzerland through her university's co-op program, Joanna is glad to be back on the west coast in Seattle as a software engineer at Microsoft, working on large-scale backend systems for Microsoft's Advertising platform. |
Dr. Stephanie Chu ’00
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From an early age, Dr. Stephanie Chu MD, CCFP knew that she wanted to go into medicine; however, her journey to become a family physician has taken her around the world and back. She attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario for her BSc.Hons in Life Sciences and then completed her medical degree at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She then completed her family medicine residency in Winnipeg at the University Manitoba before returning to start her practice in Downtown Vancouver full-time. Her charity and medical outreach work in undergrad, and her experiences during her international medical electives clarified her desire to go into family medicine. The broad nature of this speciality has allowed her to develop her special interests in working with marginalized communities, teaching UBC medical students and residents, and working in pediatric care, women's health, transgender care and geriatrics. When not working, she balances her time with exercise, home renovation projects, eating out with friends and spending quality time with her husband, their 2 kids and their 2 dogs. |
Damienne Darby ’87
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Damienne Darby grew up in Vancouver and graduated from Crofton House School in 1987. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy at Queen’s University, followed by law school at the University of British Columbia. After completing articles at Owen, Bird in Vancouver, she was called to the Bar in 1998. She left civil practice to become a Crown prosecutor with the B.C. Ministry of Attorney General and has worked there since 1998. Damienne has prosecuted a variety of matters in Provincial Courts around the Lower Mainland and in B.C. Supreme Court, focussing on sexual assault and exploitation cases, as well as human trafficking. She is currently on secondment with the Organized and Major Crime section of Criminal Appeals and Special Prosecutions. In 2014, Damienne had the privilege of representing Canada at a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Expert Group Meeting on human trafficking in Vienna, Austria, and contributed to the resulting Issue Paper on the definition of “exploitation” in the human trafficking context. |
Natalie Douglas ’12
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I discovered urban planning while I was completing an experiential learning credit at CHS. Despite this early captivation and the fact that I'm currently working in the field ~10 years later, my journey has been anything but straightforward. Surveying, sexual health education, and law are but a couple of sectors I've worked in along the way. I've been lucky enough to work with people I respect and learn from all sorts of folks about struggle and resilience in our cities. It is these experiences, and frankly time, that led me to have the confidence and courage to pursue a very particular type of climate change planning work over the past 3 years. I am early in my career with lots still to learn but am willing to answer any questions you have about my path thus far. |
Olivia Folick ’14
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Olivia Folick is a 2014 grad with a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen's University. In her time at Queen's, she dodged most of the typical career paths and has now ended up in Toronto in marketing. Since graduating from Queen's in 2018, she has worked at three different early stage technology startups, specially in the B2B (business to business) space. In doing so, she has learned a lot about what's important to being successful in the early stages of a career, and how to find balance in such a fast-paced industry. In her spare time she enjoys playing sports, traveling, and spending time with friends and family. |
Kate Gleadow ’11
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Kate is an Exploration Geologist currently focused on the gold and copper sectors. She works in field based drilling, data analysis and 3D modelling to advance early to mid stage gold projects. After leaving Crofton in 2011, Kate attended the University of Southern California (USC) to complete a BSc degree in Geological Sciences and minor in Archaeology. Kate balanced her time between study and maintaining her position on the USC Varsity Rowing Team (NCAA, DIV 1) while also enjoying living in LA. She then moved to the UK to study Mining Geology (MSc) at the Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall with a focus in resource estimation. Her professional career has involved work on various projects in Ecuador and BC. She is currently in the accreditation process to register as a Professional Geologist (P.Geo) in Canada. Her interests include outdoor pursuits (bikes! skis! boats! rocks!) and travel. She lives in Vancouver with her dog Rumi, and works in the Central Cariboo. |
Alana Gross ’12
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Following her 2012 CHS graduation, Alana spent the next four years at The University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 2016 with a BS in Radio-TV-Film (she took film every year it was offered at CHS!). For the next 3.5 years, she spent her life in the reality tv industry— first as an assistant to a senior agent at Creative Artists Agency (think Lloyd from Entourage), then as the development coordinator for FremantleMedia and later as a PR coordinator. Following a lay off in 2018, Alana realized 14+ hour work days in the entertainment industry weren’t sustainable and signed up to direct and participate in a 70 day, 4500 mile (7200 km) cross-country bike ride from Baltimore, MD to Seattle to benefit the Ulman Foundation for Young Adults with Cancer. After training all year and subsequently cycling across America, Alana made it her mission to move back to the PNW and finally achieve the work/ life balance she so badly wanted (and frankly needed). She currently works as the Community Engagement & Impact Manager for the Jewish Federation. In her free time she can be found baking, running, cycling, or hiking, or telling people she was once the McDougall House Captain and wore a sash for a whole year. Even after 9 going on 10 years graduation, she still keeps up with her best friends she made at Crofton. |
Katharine Hunter-Zaworski ’73
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Dr. Hunter-Zaworski is both a Rehabilitation and Transportation Engineer, and she is president of K.M. Hunter-Zaworski, LLC a consultancy that is focused on accessible transportation research and litigation. She is an Emeritus Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. and during her 40-year career she conducted research to improve bus, rail, and airline accessibility for persons with disabilities; wheelchair securement and restraint in public transportation vehicles; and the barriers and safety risks for transportation-disadvantaged air travelers. She has worked on making train and aircraft lavatories more accessible. |
Sarah Kim ’14
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Sarah Kim graduated from Crofton House in 2014 and is currently a Grade 1 teacher at Shanghai American School in Shanghai, China. She graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education and is currently undertaking her Master of Education in Assessment and Evaluation. Sarah was introduced to the world of international education when her family moved abroad to Singapore, where her two younger sisters attended an international school. After graduating from Queen’s, Sarah moved to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to begin her journey in international education as a Grade 1/2 teacher at the Canadian International School. During her time abroad, Sarah was able to work towards her career goals teaching internationally while exploring the world around her. Pre-pandemic, she was able to travel around Southeast Asia on the weekends and holidays, while fulfilling her duties as a teacher. As a new professional, it is at times challenging to navigate a balanced work and life; however, in the world of international education the community that surrounds you will allow you to maximize your experience both professionally and personally. |
Lindsay Kopf ’05
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Lindsay is currently working as a Mechanical engineer for a sustainability focused company, Redwood Materials in Carson City, Nevada. Balance and wellbeing has been a lifelong theme for Lindsay, beginning at Carleton University where she studied Mechanical engineering with a minor in Economics while competing on both the skiing and rowing varsity teams. Her career has taken her from government regulatory work to project engineering and a hands-on role in Oil and Gas, into people leadership and now back to a technical based role for a sustainability start up in the tech recycling industry. She is very passionate about her current role and excited that her career journey has led her to a position where she is able to meaningfully contribute to a global sustainability initiative. Outside of work, Lindsay has always been actively involved in her community - competing in triathlon and volunteering as a guide for paratriathlon and paracycling, supporting visually impaired athletes to reach their fitness and wellbeing goals. |
Phoebe Kut ’12
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Phoebe was a lifer at Crofton House and went on to attend McGill University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts & Science. Although she first intended on having a career in science, she has always been a creative individual which is something she eventually leaned into. After graduating, she went on to work at a tech company in Toronto for two years, and experienced working a traditional 9-5 job in the vibrant core of downtown Toronto. Her curiosity to live in another country led her to move to Shenzhen, China, landing a role as a Arts & Lifestyle editor at an English-language magazine. Working in China has been an eye-opening, treasured experience and one that she never imagined. In the new year she will be returning back to Vancouver to study interior design. This is a field where she has always held an interest and is interested in passionately pursuing. |
Vanessa Lam ’11
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Vanessa graduated from Crofton in 2011. She then attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Marketing and Operations and Information Management. Outside of class, she spent her time planning social events for her Wharton Cohort, getting involved with on-stage and technical theatre, and mentoring students as a Resident Advisor. After graduating from Penn in 2015, she went to work at a 150 person start up in Washington DC, Optoro. She began as a Rotational Associate, and despite her Marketing background, began to fall in love with the technical side of data. Upon completion of the program, she started the Business Intelligence Department at Optoro. Two years later, she moved on to be Manager of Business Insights and Productivity at Mastercard. In 2020, she left her job to begin her Masters of Computer and Information Technology to improve her technical skills. Her long-term goal is to bridge the technical and business divide through business culture, empathy, and data. She is currently working towards starting an independent consulting practice after graduation. |
Alex Law ’08
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After graduating from Crofton I went on to business school with a focus on accounting. I decided to go work for an accounting firm and get my CPA as I felt this would open a lot of opportunities for me. Since then I’ve been able to work with a variety of companies in various industries, including retail/consumer goods and private equity. With each subsequent role, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to find roles that I could tailor to fit a bit more with what I want in terms of balance and wellbeing in my life. |
Loritta Lin ’14
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Loritta Lin developed a passion for food and cooking from a young age and had dreams of attending culinary school. Throughout high school, she gained interest in the sciences and wanted a career combining her love for both food and science. She initially applied for nutrition/dietetics programs, but later learned about Food Science at the University of Guelph, and realized that this was her calling. Being in co-operative education, she had the opportunity to work at Maple Leaf Foods and Weston Foods as an R&D Technologist Student, opening the door to a career in product development. Upon graduation, Loritta decided to follow her original dream and further her studies at The Culinary Institute of America (Napa) for their intensive Accelerated Culinary Arts Program. While she hoped to spend a few years in the restaurant industry, COVID hit and effectively shut down this option. This was incredibly disappointing, but led her to a unique role at Acid League, a rapidly growing start-up company founded by her former classmates. She is currently their Lead Artisanal Culinologist, where she develops retail and DTC food products. Although the start-up life is quite crazy, she is excited to see where this position takes her. |
Dr. Marion MacKay-Dunn ’02
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Dr. Marion MacKay-Dunn, MD, FRCPC, is an Internal Medicine specialist with sub-specialization in Geriatric Medicine. Marion graduated from CHS in 2002 then completed her Bachelor of Science degree at UBC, majoring in Cell Biology and Genetics. Marion’s Medical Degree was completed in 2013 followed by 5 years of Internal Medicine Residency and Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, completed in 2018 at UBC. Dr. MacKay-Dunn has an active clinical practice as a consultant physician for both Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Hospital, and teaches medical students and resident physicians in her role as Clinical Instructor for UBC Faculty of Medicine. Meanwhile, Marion met and married her husband Robert in 2016, and welcomed their daughter Rosie in 2019. Marion continues to develop her personal and professional lives and loves with a focus on family while balancing motherhood and medicine. |
Katie G. Mak ’05
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Katie is a lawyer specializing in insolvency and restructuring law. Her practice involves assisting clients with resolving challenges that arise from businesses in distress and uncertain times, and providing advice to help clients save resources, preserve businesses and protect interests. When a business is impacted by events such as COVID-19, restructuring may be the difference between the business' demise and its recovery. Katie also has a fraud and asset recovery practice, acting in high-profile Ponzi scheme cases. Her practice area is always changing, fast paced and involves different areas of law, from closing corporate transactions to appearing in court. Katie is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelors of Arts, Economics and Communications) and of University of Victoria (Juris Doctor, Law). |
Jules Miller ’16
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Jules Miller is a content creator who has worked at companies such as CBC News, CityTV, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Jules attended Ryerson University in the RTA: Media Production program. Over her 4 years at school, she learned how to balance jobs and internships alongside school and extracurricular activities. After graduating in 2020, she took time to develop her skills as a creator which helped to open up future opportunities in the media industry. Jules lives and works in Toronto and balances multiple contract positions while also developing her own personal brand. |
Tricia Pang ’03
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Tricia Pang (2003 Grad Class) has a decade of project management experience from leading transformational changes at TELUS. With a combination of business, strategic and leadership experience at TELUS, her computer engineering degree from UBC, and her passion for helping the community, Tricia created AssistList, a volunteer-run charity dedicated to helping individuals find the home health equipment they need to be safe in their daily lives. Outside of work, Tricia enjoys tea parties with her two little girls, staying active, and planning her next family vacation. |
Anita (Warbinek) Petersen ’90
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ANITA PETERSEN created her first marketing campaign for a lemonade stand. If she invested the money in Apple rather than art supplies, she would be living in Paris. Today she runs her own boutique branding agency working with artists, art publishers, and décor companies to build innovative brands for the digital age. But all agencies say things like that. In her 20s Anita studied art at UBC and moved to the city for a life of love, art, theatre, and late-night poetry readings. A fateful connection (with a now-famous movie director who will not be named) sent her back to school to study PR and design. Marriage. Family. Career. The following decade was gorgeous chaos. Some say what happened next was reckless and foolish … or genius. She and her husband walked away from corporate careers and started an agency of their own. Today they live in Naramata, surrounded by vineyards where the community motto is #narmataslow. When she isn’t working, volunteering, or driving her teenage son places, she can be found drooling over the latest home décor while trying to drone out her husband’s protests of "We don't need any more throw pillows!" What a silly thing to say. |
Kate Saunders ’96
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Kate Saunders (’96) has over 20 years of experience as a counsellor and educator, specializing in working with children and families. Her path to this career started in planning class at Crofton in Grade 9 and she has always followed her passion for understanding children. Kate completed her BA in Child Youth Care at UVic and her MA in Counselling Psychology at Adler University, and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in BC. She works therapeutically with children in play therapy, with individual adults, and with parents and children together to address challenging behaviours and emotion regulation. Kate is a certified practitioner and trainer of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, which involves in-the-moment coaching to help parents manage disruptive behaviour in young children. Kate focuses particularly on supporting healthy attachment and emotional development with all of her clients. Explore more at www.counsellorkate.com |
Dr. Sandra Scott ’76
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My journey began in 1972 when I came to Crofton in Grade 10. I loved the school from the moment I entered the gates. The Crofton House Community supported what I already cherished about education - sharing the stories of birds, whales, and everything nature - and opened up the possibilities for lifelong pursuits in science and environmental education and conservation. I view myself as a naturalist, scientist, and educator of, for, and in the environment; I am a passionate advocate for learning experiences that nurture our sense of wonder for the human and more than human world. Since graduating in 1976, entering UBC, and now teaching as a Professor at UBC in the Faculty of Education, my Crofton House memories have remained with me as significant life experiences. An important learning from my time at Crofton was the importance of reciprocity, which I realize and live through my work. I have the privilege of collaborating with those who give back through research, teaching, mentoring, and co-learning about, within, and alongside nature. |
Tiffany So ’14
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Tiffany is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. Her animated musical series LIMITED SPACE was featured at the New York Television Festival and received a development deal award from Bento Box Entertainment. Her short film FINE CHINA won the HBO APA Visionaries Competition and is currently available on HBO and HBO Max. Most recently, she wrote for ABOMINABLE on Dreamworks, GOSSIP GIRL on HBO Max, and Ali Wong's upcoming Netflix series JENTRY. This past year she sold her television series YEAR OF THE RABBIT to Amazon Studios with Alice Wu attached to direct. |
Kim Turgeon CPA, CA, CISA ’94
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Kim is an accountant (CPA) who spends none of her time doing accountant work. As a partner at Deloitte, she focuses her time helping Financial Institutions (Banks, Insurance and Pension Plans) manage their cybersecurity and technology risks. Finishing university with absolutely no idea what she wanted to do as a career, she chose jobs that she thought would be the most fun. Along the way, she worked with amazing people and learned soft skills that perfectly complemented a later career as a Consultant (who knew?!?). Her education background includes a Queens’ BA in History/Politics, Diploma in Application and Management of IT from UVic, and a Certificate in Financial Accounting from Ryerson. Having worked in hotels, ski resorts and banks, she found a great job was more about the people you worked with and what you learned along the way than what you actually did. Twelve years after graduating university, she decided to go for the CPA, went back to school part time and got a job at Deloitte where she has excelled for the last 15 years. At Crofton, she was House Captain of Stuart and graduated in 1994. She and her family live in Toronto and she has 3 amazing nieces who go or went to Crofton (Katie, Maria and Amanda Eng). |
Vicky Wang ’10
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I graduated from Crofton in 2010 and have been working in the Finance industry in Asia post graduating Georgetown University in 2014. I am currently working in Private Equity in the Private Funds Group at Credit Suisse, previously I was with Goldman in their Equity Capital Markets, and BlackRock in Hong Kong. One thing I wish I had known earlier is the importance of understanding that the journey is forever really. When we are younger, we tend to focus on hitting the goalposts because there was always that next test or destination that we have to get to; however, having been a working adult now for 7 years, I can confidently say that it will be a journey because every day the world changes around you and the work to grow never really stops. The question then becomes how do you succeed, outlast your peers, and be your best every day in a changing world? Just like a beautiful tall strong tree that grows, what can we do to nourish ourselves, so you can continue to grow no matter the weather of the day - rain or shine?! |
Jamie Wiggins ’03
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Jamie is a Senior Technical Developer at lululemon athletica. She has over 10 years of product development experience working on a variety of product categories, most recently specializing in circular knit apparel. In her free time she is a competitive artistic swimmer and enjoys spending time with her nieces. |
Dr. Elaine Wong ’88
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Elaine is an accomplished senior executive in global oncology drug development. After graduating from CHS in 1988, she pursued her BSc, MSc and MD degrees. While working at the BC Cancer Agency as a Radiation Oncologist, she followed her curiosity when approached by a recruiter in 2006, and relocated to San Francisco to be a Medical Director at Genentech. While there, Elaine learned about the industry side of medicine, and was soon leading clinical trials and development programs across Genentech’s oncology franchise. In 2009, Elaine moved to Switzerland to work at the Headquarters of F. Hoffmann-La Roche where she was the Global Medical Lead of Roche’s key oncology program. After expanding her global biotech/pharma experience, Elaine returned to the US in 2012, and joined a small start-up, Medivation, in San Francisco where she developed and executed the Medical strategy. After Medivation was acquired in 2017, Elaine took a short break to travel, and returned to the industry as a consultant in oncology drug development. Through consulting, Elaine has worked with companies world-wide, focusing on strategic planning and clinical trials, connecting them to academia, cooperative groups, and even other companies – with the goal of bringing new medicines to cancer patients. |
Keynote Presentation
We were fortunate to have Ida Templeton, Crofton House School parent, join us as this year’s keynote speaker. Alongside the theme of “Balance and Wellbeing”, Ida shared her 5 Keys to Wellness & Success, highlighting the importance of Progress Not Perfection.
Read our feature on Ms Templeton: Progress Not Perfection, Ida Templeton Gives Back