{"id":66670,"date":"2020-06-24T10:18:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=66670"},"modified":"2020-06-24T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:23:51","slug":"new-graduate-took-unlikely-journey-from-the-caribbean-to-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/06\/new-graduate-took-unlikely-journey-from-the-caribbean-to-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"New graduate took unlikely journey from the Caribbean to Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sophie Strachan<\/span> takes pride in know<\/span>ing<\/span> she took the road less travelled on her<\/span> path to Convocation<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Strachan o<\/span>riginally attended the University of the West Indies<\/span>(UWI) at its\u00a0<\/span>St. Augustine<\/span> campus<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>D<\/span>uring <\/span>her<\/span> studies<\/span>,<\/span> she attended<\/span> a joint exhibition between <\/span>Brock <\/span>University<\/span> and <\/span>UWI<\/span>,<\/span> where she was able to showcase her <\/span>art<\/span> on an international platform.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That experience motivated Strachan <\/span>to<\/span> apply <\/span>to be an<\/span> exchange <\/span>student<\/span> at Brock <\/span>in <\/span>the<\/span> second year of <\/span>her<\/span> undergraduate degree<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>After<\/span> returning home from her exchange<\/span>, <\/span>Strachan<\/span> realized that <\/span>she <\/span>missed Canada and the community <\/span>she <\/span>formed.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had made friends who are like family to me now,\u201d said Strachan.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>August 2017, <\/span>she<\/span> decided to officially transfer and finish her undergraduate degree at Brock.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>It’s crazy how everything just happened,” she said. “Sometimes I still can’t believe it.\u00a0<\/span>I would encourage first years to search out all the possible avenues in which they can make their new journey at Brock<\/span> as<\/span> exciting as possible<\/span>.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Almost three<\/span> years later<\/span>,<\/span> Strachan<\/span> has<\/span> graduated from the Visual Arts (Studio Arts) program<\/span>.<\/span> She\u2019s one of more than <\/span>400 international students from 46 countries graduating from the University during Spring Convocation, but her journey is far from over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This fall, she will begin her master of education at Brock.<\/p>\n

“I believe that what I worked on before can be carried forward to my <\/span>p<\/span>ost-<\/span>g<\/span>raduate research<\/span>,<\/span>\u201d<\/span> said Strachan.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Specializing in the <\/span>s<\/span>ocial and <\/span>c<\/span>ultural <\/span>c<\/span>ontext<\/span>, Strachan hopes to <\/span>bring change <\/span>to <\/span>the <\/span>e<\/span>ducation system <\/span>with her<\/span> perspective <\/span>of<\/span> being <\/span>both <\/span>an international student<\/span> and wom<\/span>a<\/span>n<\/span> of <\/span>colour<\/span>.<\/span> She<\/span> hopes to<\/span> show <\/span>society<\/span> the importance and impact <\/span>that<\/span> various media of expressions <\/span>can<\/span> have today, especially in education.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>After completing this <\/span>g<\/span>raduate program, my goal is to either teach in a higher education setting or work in the field of Visual Arts<\/span>,\u201d said Strachan.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sophie Strachan originally attended the University of the West Indies and embarked on an exchange at Brock University during her second year. After returning home, she realized that she missed Canada and the community she formed and made a life-changing decision. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":66671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,40,188,55,1,4],"tags":[3333,159,9127,7409,8912,156,9196,8791,98,1688,9124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66711,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66670\/revisions\/66711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}