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A journey shaped by connection, storytelling, and lifelong learning

Monday, September 29, 2025 @ 12:00 AM

Grace Bruinooge is all about "creative connecting."

Graduating with a major in Communications and Media in 2024, Bruinooge has worked in an array of specialized arenas—from graphic design, communications assistant, to now working with the National Screen Institute (NSI) as their operations administrator.

From Classroom to complex systems: learning to make good decisions

Sunday, September 28, 2025 @ 12:00 AM

Dean Dueck began his studies at CMU in 2009, transferring from Steinbach Bible College (SBC). "CMU had a really good relationship and good credit transfers between the two universities," he says. This allowed him to dive into a business program that was launching, gaining experiences that would shape his career and approach to problem-solving.

From peacebuilding to conservation: A CMU alum’s journey of justice, community, and care for creation

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 @ 8:00 AM

Aaron Janzen knows being an environmentalist is as much about working with people as it is with the land.

The self-described "social scientist type-person," graduated from CMU in 2008, majoring in Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies (PACTS).

Stitching together community and sustainability

Thursday, September 18, 2025 @ 8:00 AM

Anna-Marie Janzen's earliest childhood memory is sewing.

She recalls sitting on the kitchen floor with her grandmother, playing with giant, oversized plastic needles and shaped cards as her grandma taught her the fundamentals of stitching and threading.

Through the lens: How CMU helped an Indigenous storyteller find her voice

Thursday, September 18, 2025 @ 12:00 AM

Gindalee Ouskun points to the great paradox in her life—she is shy and introverted, yet her work is public-facing and relational. "It's kind of ironic that I would choose a career where ... I'm always interacting with people and really putting myself out there," she laughs. "But being in the role brings out a sort of confidence that I don't necessarily always have."

Advancing reconciliation through storytelling

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 @ 8:00 AM

"I have always been a storyteller," says Ben Borne over a Zoom call from his home in Saskatoon, SK. "And what I'm really good at is bringing people together."

Since graduating from CMU with a Bachelor of Arts in 2013, Borne's various endeavors and accomplishments—which are far too innumerable to list but include podcast host and founding his own public relations firm—all share that similar theme: storytelling.

From newcomer to community-builder: A CMU alum’s journey of purpose, justice, and leadership

Monday, September 15, 2025 @ 12:28 PM

When Gode Katembo thinks about his time at CMU, he doesn't just remember classes and assignments. What stands out is how the experience reshaped his sense of direction.

"For me, CMU did not prepare me for a career," he said. "It prepared me for purpose."

From martyrology to herpetology: A CMU alum's global journey of curiosity, community, and conservation

Thursday, September 11, 2025 @ 8:19 AM

A few days after graduating from CMU in 2025, Tai Linklater was in an airplane on the way to the Netherlands. The 23-year-old from Altona, MB travelled an ocean away from CMU, and yet it was present in almost every adventure of their two-week trip, a microcosm of their university experience: curiosity and community.

While at CMU, Linklater took a course on The Martyrs Mirror, a chronicle of the persecution and martyrdom of Anabaptist Christians particularly in the 16th century with Dr. Chris Huebner, Professor of Philosophy and Theology. Linklater and a fellow classmate met up with Huebner, who was on sabbatical doing research in Amsterdam, and together they toured many of the historical sites where the book's stories took place. They even did an escape room based on one of the martyr accounts, in the very area where it occurred hundreds of years ago.

Finding connection as an outsider: How CMU shaped a public servant

Thursday, September 11, 2025 @ 12:00 AM

Marvin Marcial didn't mean to become a CMU student. What was initially supposed to be one music elective as a visiting student from the University of Winnipeg turned him into a full-time student who ended up graduating from CMU with a Bachelor of Music in 2007. "I ended up in choir and that changed the whole trajectory of my education, and I transferred over to CMU the next year," he says.

Notes, nursing, and new horizons: A journey of learning and service

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 @ 12:00 AM

When Heidi Derksen meets for a conversation in the mid-afternoon, she's wrapping up her day and going to sleep after the interview ends. This unconventional bedtime is because she's an ICU nurse in Saskatoon's hospitals, working alternating day and night shifts. The routine can be taxing, but it allows her a lot of flexibility for one of her favourite activities: travel.

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