McMaster Archive

August 30, 2016

How one first-year student found her inner “social justice warrior”

Elissa James traveled to Morocco to teach English, learn Arabic and explore a new culture, but after witnessing the brutality of the Arab Spring, she returned to Canada with a passion for human rights.

August 17, 2016

Finding hope with arrival of Canadian medical supplies

Lynn Dykeman, an assistant professor with McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine, visited northern Iraq in 2009 with colleagues from McMaster. From these experiences has come a shared dedication to do whatever possible to help those in Iraq.