Christine Sun

• A fastidious upper-year student pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Women & Gender Studies, committed to operating from anti-oppressive frameworks.
• Self-starter who possesses excellent organizational capabilities and strongly developed communication and interpersonal skills
• Five years of experience in driving success and superior results in areas of project management, program coordination, research, report writing, and administration

Urban Leadership Fellowship and Academy: Cities of Inequities Academy Member, 01/2021 to 06/2021

School of Cities, University of Toronto, St George – Toronto, ON

• Project builds on the work of Let's Talk Food UofT, a coalition made up of New College and 88 Chestnut students and residence dons, and Equity Studies' Student Union executives, and intends to further interrogate institutional responsibility towards improving food security for post-secondary students across the GTA. This includes a localized analysis of the University of Toronto's food provisions policies, the possibility for future mandates, and the eventual building of sustainable, equitable, and accessible food infrastructure at the post-secondary level . Ultimately, the project will take the form of a "living" power map document, that visually maps out the contradictions, and obligations of post-secondary institutions in addressing food security gaps facing its diverse student populations

Undergraduate Fellowship in Race, Ethics and Power, 09/2019 to 07/2021

Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, St George - Toronto, ON

• Research sets to interrogating mainstream moves towards solidarity, and the ways in which practices of allyship participate in the same racial and colonial systems they aim to dismantle, examining the ways in which we can inscribe an ethics of accountability that sustains social movements and approaches to decolonization long term, and allows for the creation of socially-just and fair policy where Black and Indigenous communities lead at the forefront

Dean's International and Indigenous Initiatives Funding (DIIIF): African Elders' Cultural Knowledge and the Question of Indigeneity and Decolonization, 05/2019 to 08/2019

Arts and Sciences Faculty, University of Toronto, St George – Toronto, ON

• Selected to participate and assist in a research abroad initiative, funded by DIIIF and spearheaded by Dr. George J.S. Dei, in areas of decolonial education, and African Indigenous knowledge systems in Ghana, West Africa, examining African Indigeneity and it's saliency in Black, Indigenous, and non-Indigenous solidarity work within the Canadian context

David Rayside Undergraduate Scholarship, 11/2020

Undergraduate Department Political Science, University of Toronto St. George – Toronto, ON

• Awarded on the basis of academic merit, and demonstrated commitment and leadership in co-curricular activities, on or off campus, promoting greater public understanding of social and cultural diversity and enhanced inclusion of historically marginalized populations: for example racialized minorities, women, Indigenous communities, immigrants and refugees, people with disabilities, sexual minorities

Dan Leckie City of Toronto Award, 01/2020

Enrolment Services, Financial Aid & Awards Office, University of Toronto, St George – Toronto, ON

• Awarded on the basis of academic merit and political engagement.

Frank Peers Award for International Study and Experience, 10/2019

Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, St George – Toronto, ON

• Scholarship support to present final research paper on areas of sustainable development and Indigenous knowledge production at the "Rethinking African Education: Challenges, Possibilities, and the Lessons of Translocation" conference, a collaborative project hosted by the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies (CIARS), OISE, University of Toronto