After over 40 years of dedicated service to the Humber College community, Mary Vesia is retiring on June 30, 2022.

During her time at Humber Mary has served in a variety of different roles including:

• Secretary to the Dean of Applied Arts
• Peer Tutoring and Disability Assistant, Counselling
• Project Co-ordinator, Student Development & Articulation 

In her current role, as the Dual Credit Project and Financial Co-ordinator, Mary has served as a strong advocate, working tirelessly to secure new opportunities focused on student success for learners in our Dual Credit and Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Programs (OYAP). She is well-respected, hardworking, supportive and shared that what she will miss most, “is feeling the energy that students bring to their Humber experience.”

Retirement holds excitement for Mary as she plans to travel and spend time enjoying the company of her friends and family. While we wish her the best in her new adventures, she will be truly missed by the College community.

Please join me in thanking Mary and for celebrating the numerous and varied contributions that she has made to the Humber College community and most notably to supporting student success over the years. 

In kindness,

Christina Meredith
Associate Dean, Pathways Programs

Advising & Career Services’ online Alumni Interviews and Coffee Chats will be continuing in 2022 with brand new guests. Please feel free to share widely with your student and alumni networks, as our content contains helpful insights from a wide variety of Humber staff and alumni to support students with navigating their career journeys.

This month's episode of Advising & Career Services' Coffee Chat Session is now live on YouTube.

Our guest is from the Intearnationl Graduate School team: Diane Simpson, Principal, Humber International Graduate School; Vjola Konomi, IGS learning engagement facilitator; Rina Di Mito, Manager Industry and Community Connector Hub (ICHub) and Kim Morrison, Career Planner,

Please visit our website for full details, and to access all of our past interviews and content. For any questions or concerns, please e-mail careers@humber.ca.

I am delighted to announce that Jenna Donelson has been appointed as Director, Public Affairs & Strategic Engagement within the Government Relations, Marketing and Communications department.

In 2019, Jenna joined Humber College to develop the new Public Affairs Manager role, focusing on engaging government and other key stakeholders to advance some of Humber’s strategic goals, including developing government champions for the historic Humber Cultural Hub project. While at Humber, Jenna has worked to raise awareness about the Humber Cultural Hub with all three levels of government, played a key role in the successful advocacy to empower colleges to grant independent nursing degrees and helped inform Provincial policies for colleges throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also led events and campus visits featuring Premier Ford, Federal and Provincial Ministers and other notable elected officials and dignitaries.  

Jenna is a public policy professional with more than a decade of experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Prior to joining Humber, she was Head of Policy Development and Regulatory Affairs at Lending Loop, Canada’s first peer-to-peer FinTech company. Jenna also served as a Senior Policy Advisor to Ontario's Minister of Finance where she oversaw many key financial services files as well as post-secondary and education files. It was through this experience that she first engaged with public policy tools that could increase greater access to education and innovation within the college sector.

Please join me in congratulating Jenna on her new role.

Thanks,

Kelly Jackson
Vice President, External Affairs and Professional Learning

Humber Libraries introduces Leisure Reading and Audiobook collections on OverDrive! Easily download books and audiobooks for your eReader, phone or tablet and check out: 

• The latest Canada Reads, including the 2022 winner, Five Little Indians.
• Exciting and new Black Voices in Poetry, like Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head.
• New non-fiction releases, such as Sarah Polley's Run Toward the Danger, or Jesse Wente's Unreconciled.
• Recent audiobooks including Jessica J Lee's award winning memoir, Two Trees Make a Forest: A Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts.

Browse more of our new Humber Libraries' OverDrive collection, or visit the library website for further resources.