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Tomisin Bolorunduro (MBA, '20) says her CMU MBA "was a great foundation" for identifying her personal values and for navigating her career path.

MBA alumna protects data of millions at innovative tech company

Posted in Alumni Profiles  •  Wednesday, March 9, 2022 @ 9:00 AM

CMU alumna Tomisin Bolorunduro moved to Vancouver, a city where she knew no one, in the midst of a pandemic. But what she moved for was worth it: a job at Trulioo, an innovative tech start-up and global leader in online identity verification and data privacy.

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Darcy Reimer (’15, Environmental Studies): "CMU instilled a passion that motivated me to find a discipline where I could do something that uses my skills, that feels meaningful and helpful to others.”

Forestry management helps alumnus find a just and equitable world

Posted in Alumni Profiles  •  Monday, February 28, 2022 @ 10:38 AM

Hearing Darcy Reimer ('15, Environmental Studies) reflect on this time at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), you see how CMU was a place of intersection, bringing together his passions and helping direct him into his career.

Reimer appreciated the small, interactive biology classes with Dr. Rachel Krause where he had the freedom to explore individual curiosities. Important to these classes was how the dialogue between science and faith were incorporated into his education, through which Reimer found a congruity between faith and science.

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Graduate School of Theology & Ministry alumnus finds immigration consultancy work a “life-changing experience”

Graduate School of Theology & Ministry alumnus finds immigration consultancy work a “life-changing experience”

Posted in Alumni Profiles  •  Monday, January 31, 2022 @ 9:43 AM

For Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) alumnus Arisnel Mesidor (CMU '15), changing people's lives isn't an abstract hope or dream; it's the reality of his daily work.

As the owner and manager of Mesidor Canadian Immigration Services, he helps non-Canadians make the life-altering transition to becoming Canadian citizens. Daily, he meets with clients and mentors them as they navigate the complex world of the Canadian immigration system.

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I Am A Mennonite investigates the past to glimpse into the future

I Am A Mennonite investigates the past to glimpse into the future

Posted in Alumni Profiles  •  Monday, January 17, 2022 @ 1:36 PM

Within the first five minutes of Paul Plett's (CMU 2004-05) newest documentary, I Am A Mennonite, he askes his target audience of Mennonites, "Where are we going to spiritually?"

That may be a loaded question for a community whose history is steeped in schisms, immigration, and discernment. But, It's a question Plett says is not rhetorical. "We're not going anywhere else physically. As a community, it does sort of seem that the real adventure is the spiritual one." Plett says that since Mennonite's transient disposition seems to have receded, we need to journey deeper into self-reflection, exploring inward as our spirituality is the most important odyssey of all.

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The ABCs of Women in Music by Anneli Leopp Thiessen (CMU '18), illustrated by Haeon Grace Kang (CMU '17)

CMU alumni collaborate on book featuring women in music

Posted in Alumni Profiles  •  Wednesday, December 22, 2021 @ 8:21 AM

A vibrant children's book featuring 26 women in music will soon be hitting bookstore shelves, and it was created by two CMU alumni. Anneli Loepp Thiessen (CMU '18) first wrote The ABCs of Women in Music in fall 2020 as a creative project for a feminist theories class at the University of Ottawa, where she is a PhD student in interdisciplinary music research.

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