Alumni Perspectives Speaker Series

Celebrating UWinnipeg's McCall MacBain Scholars
February 2024

Inspiring stories of three recent UWinnipeg alum who have each received a full graduate scholarship to McGill University. The McCall McBain Scholarship is a prestigious honour that has been awarded to a UWinnipeg student every year since its creation in 2021. The McCall MacBain Scholarship “brings together exceptional students who strive to engage in positive change by taking on meaningful leadership roles” and “provides students with the mentorship, interdisciplinary learning, and global community they need to accelerate their impact on the world.”

Cameron Adams (2023 recipient): Cameron Adams (He/Him) is of ininiw and Anishinaabe ancestry and is a member of Berens River First Nation in Treaty 5 Territory. He is now pursuing his M.A. in Indigenous Language Revitalization at McGill University. He is passionate about language revitalization and making space for Indigenous languages.

Sidney Leggett (2022 recipient): Sydney Leggett pursued a Master of Science in Epidemiology through the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University, and is now in her MSc-Thesis of Epidemiology. She wants to help find impactful and innovative ways to empower Indigenous youth to follow their dreams. Leggett was also a student in the Pathways to Graduate Studies (P2GS) program, which offers research opportunities for Indigenous students in STEM, and was a mentor in the program too.

Josh Swain (2021 recipient): Josh Swain is Red River Métis, having grown up in and around Kinosota, Manitoba. From UWinnipeg he went on to complete his Master of Science in Public Health at McGill. He is currently the Special Projects Manager at Anishnawbe Health Toronto, as well as the Indigenous clinical research coordinator at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre where he works on the Pediatric Outcome Improvement through Coordination of Research Networks project.