My name is Jenna Thornber and I am 25 years old from Uxbridge, Ontario currently residing in Sudbury, Ontario.  I currently work at Laurentian University Students’ General Association as Director of Outreach. I oversee club programming, community partnerships and design unique initiatives to benefit the student body at Laurentian. I also collaborate with many departments at the university and sit on various committees. I have also done some part-time teaching leading international trips such as eco-health study tours and health promotion volunteer work in countries such as Iceland, Norway, Malawi and Zambia.

 

I have a Bachelor of Physical and Health Education with a specialization in Outdoor Adventure Leadership from Laurentian University. I have also been coaching running programs for youth ages 7-13 as well as university athletes for the past 3 years. This summer I helped with a wildlife documentary project called Co-extinction on beautiful Vancouver Island. My passions are wildlife conservation, dance and outdoor recreation, travel and sustainable living.

 

My career aspirations have always been to be an influencer of positive change. Over the years this aspiration has remained however my thought process on how to achieve it has drastically changed. Over the past 3 years my obsession with the term “sustainability” has grown and I know that it is the field I am meant to be in (well in all honesty the field that everyone should be in) and that sustainability in education has massive power to influence positive change that lasts. If we can start ingraining sustainable behaviours, attitudes and practices among our youth at the primary and secondary level, the new positive developments in higher education and into the workforce will lead us forward into a sustainable future.

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