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We Are LCC

Lower Canada College · Kristine Jones

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Show overview

We Are LCC has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 51 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 25 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 25 min and 34 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 months ago, with 2 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 12 episodes published. Published by Kristine Jones.

Episodes
51
Running
2021–2026 · 5y
Median length
29 min
Cadence
Monthly

From the publisher

We are Lower Canada College, a Montreal school with a 114-year history that’s always been guided by the belief that everyone’s a learner for life. Our alumni, students, parents, teachers and staff have had extraordinary experiences, providing them with insights and perspectives that are worth sharing.The We Are LCC podcast is a series of informative and engaging conversations with members of the extended Lower Canada College community, wherever they may be on the planet. We delve into a wide range of diverse and timely issues with experts from a variety of fields. From sustainability to wellness to human rights, there will be something new to learn. Be sure to subscribe to We Are LCC wherever you find your favourite podcasts and be inspired.

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Ep 50The LCC Athletic Edge: Building Leaders Beyond the Classroom

In this episode, we dive into the LCC student-athlete advantage. At LCC, participation in athletics is more than just a game—it is a powerful, real-world extension of the classroom. Through sports, our students learn invaluable lessons about resilience, teamwork, and leadership that shape them into well-rounded individuals ready for success in all aspects of life.To explore what gives our student-athletes this unique edge, we are thrilled to be joined by LCC’s Director of Athletics, Christian Viau, along with two incredible alumni who have lived the LCC athletic experience firsthand and taken those lessons into their college and professional careers.Christian Viau, BEd | Director of Athletics, LCC Chris has been a cornerstone of LCC Athletics since joining the school in 1999 as a math and physical education teacher. A lifelong sports enthusiast, he has coached everything from soccer and hockey to basketball, tennis, and baseball. Before taking the reins as Director of Athletics in 2011, Chris served as the Junior School athletics coordinator and ran LCC's hockey camp for over a decade. He also co-founded the Ligue de Hockey Interscolaire du Québec, which has since merged with the RSEQ provincial league.Isaiah Fox | LCC Class of 2017 Isaiah’s hockey journey is a testament to perseverance. After graduating from LCC in 2017, he spent two years at the Holderness School (NH) before taking a two-year gap year to play Junior hockey for the Maine Nordiques (NAHL). His hard work earned him a Division 1 scholarship to Long Island University, where he played four years and graduated with a degree in Business Management in 2025. Isaiah then signed a professional contract in the ECHL with the Adirondack Thunder (NJ Devils affiliate) and later played in Iowa before concluding his pro hockey career. He is currently an Account Manager for Margo Sales.Angelina Chevrier | LCC Class of 2023 Angelina exemplifies the ultimate student-athlete balance. Currently studying Health Sciences at Vanier College, she serves as the 2025 Women’s Soccer Team Captain and recently earned the impressive title of RSEQ Academic All-Star. Beyond her rigorous studies and athletic commitments, Angelina is a community leader and entrepreneur, serving as the co-owner of She Kicks, an all-girls soccer camp based in Montreal.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 9, 202628 min

Ep 49Chris Martin '10: From Friction to Flow: Operationalizing Empathy

Chris is an LCC alum who works with organizations and communities to make decisions that actually match how people work, what systems demand, and the realities they serve. Over the past decade, they worked across agencies and consultant networks in the nonprofit and social impact space, often stepping in where strong intentions were undermined by unclear processes, conflicting priorities, and unrealistic expectations placed on staff and volunteers who were already carrying complexity without shared language or support.Chris has intentionally built their work outside the content and visibility economy. Instead of relying on constant posting, paid marketing, or a polished web presence, they engage in spaces where people are already thinking deeply, amplify leaders across disciplines, and stay in conversation through collaboration and dialogue, often across roles and perspectives that do not usually speak to one another. All of their work has emerged through trust, peer relationships, and referral, modelling an alternative to burnout driven and transactional approaches to impact.A Nonprofit Hive Trusted Partner, Chris has supported organizations working across gender and identity, youth mental health, and humanitarian and conflict affected contexts. Their approach is shaped by academic experiences across international development, peace-building, and psychology at McGill University, where they studied how power, conflict, and social systems shape outcomes on the ground, and how change actually happens when people are under pressure.Within the past year, Chris founded Empowering Empathy, a federal nonprofit, to carry this relationship centred work into shared infrastructure, knowledge, and capacity for the sector. Through coaching, advising, and facilitation, they support people and organizations leading change in imperfect conditions, helping teams move from friction toward shared clarity, steadier decision making, and ways of working that can actually hold the impact they are trying to create.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Feb 9, 20261h 36m

Ep 48April Bi '25, Pre-U '26: LCC in the Wild - The Field Science Immersion Experience at The Kenauk Institute

April '25, Pre-U '26, a student at LCC with a strong passion for science, spent the summer of 2025 putting her research skills to the test as an intern at the Kenauk Institute. In this episode of the We Are LCC podcast, she shares insights from her fieldwork, shedding light on the practical scientific research opportunities available to students.April hopes her experience encourages others to be bold, step beyond the classroom, and explore what real-world science has to offer. It’s amazing what can happen when you take that leap—listen in to discover April’s journey and what she learned along the way at the Kenauk Institute.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dec 9, 202517 min

Ep 47Pat Dussault '97: Behind-the-Scenes of an Award-winning Comedy Writer, Actor, and Producer

Patrick Dussault is an award-winning comedy writer, actor, and producer, whose credits include Just for Laughs, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Beaverton, The MMVAs and The Canadian Screen Awards. He has written jokes, sketches, and monologues for comics and celebrities including Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen, Chevy Chase, Norm MacDonald, Sir Patrick Stewart, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Jimmy Carr, Carrie Fisher, Jeff Goldblum, Anthony Jeselnik, Anthony Anderson and Lily Singh.As an actor, Patrick’s film and TV credits Borje, The Fire Inside, The Jane Mysteries, StarTrek: Strange New Worlds, and Olympians at Heart.  Pat is best known to audiences as befuddled life coach Rowen S.N. Potts, the spokesman for Sportsnet+.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Oct 9, 202535 min

Ep 46Eric Macramalla '91, Lawyer & TSN Sports Legal Analyst: The Art of Marrying Passion & Profession

Eric Macramalla is a partner at Gowling WLG and a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Group. His practice focuses on trademark litigation and prosecution, as well as a variety of Internet-related legal issues, including social media and domain name disputes.Through his trademark litigation and prosecution practice, Eric helps his clients manage their domestic and global trademark portfolios, while protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights, both in Canada and abroad.In light of the ever-evolving intersection between IP and social media, he also helps his clients navigate intellectual property issues on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and other social media platformsWith recognition in dispute resolution, Eric acts for clients in domain name disputes around the world. He is also an arbitrator for domain name disputes and a co-author of Domain Name Law and Practice: An International Handbook (Oxford University Press).Eric has an exceptional reputation in the field of trademarks. In 2024, Eric was awarded the exclusive Lexology North America Award in the field of trademarks. This award recognizes outstanding achievement and world class client service in the legal industry as independently nominated by leading lawyers, in-house counsel and corporate teams. Eric has also been awarded the Lexology Client Choice award in an unprecedented three consecutive years.Eric is also the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Offside across the TSN Radio Network and writes for Forbes on sports legal issues.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 4, 202534 min

Ep 45Chris Shannon, Pre-U '76: Final Thoughts on 20 Years at LCC

Christopher Shannon joined LCC in 2005. Since then he has overseen the implementation of three strategic plans, the school’s most successful fund-raising initiatives and the construction of several state-of-the art learning facilities. Under his leadership, LCC has also developed a clear vision for campus and program development with an emphasis on program excellence, innovation and sustainability. This includes a more global orientation with the adoption of the IB curriculum in the high school, active membership in the Round Square international association of schools and broad student participation in the Duke of Edinburgh leadership programs.During his tenure at LCC, Mr. Shannon has been President of the QAIS and served on the boards of CAIS, Round Square and the Vimy Foundation, which provides unique learning opportunities for young Canadians exploring Canada’s notable WWI legacy. Prior to coming to LCC, Mr. Shannon served for six years as head of school at Stanstead College in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.A fluently bilingual Montrealer, Christopher Shannon graduated from Selwyn House School and from Pre-University at LCC, making him the first alumnus to head Lower Canada College. He pursued his education at Queen’s (B.A.), Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales – University of Geneva (Master's in International Affairs) and Brock University in Ontario (Master's in Educational Administration). Chris and his wife Hilary have two children: Leah (Pre-U ’06) and Matthew ’07 (Pre-U ’08), both proud graduates of LCC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 9, 202532 min

Ep 44Kiho Hirabayashi '25: Embodying Non Nobis Solum

Kiho Hirabayashi is a Grade 11 student at LCC and the founder of Eizy English — a free online English tutoring program for students across Japan. Eizy English welcomes learners of all ages, from elementary students to seniors, and aims to make English education accessible to everyone, especially in rural areas where native English speakers are less common. Recently, Kiho organized a book drive in collaboration with the Imabari Board of Education in Japan. This initiative will send books — along with handwritten messages from LCC students and teachers — to 15 to 20 elementary and middle schools in Imabari, Japan. While collecting the messages, Kiho also shared stories about the warm community of Imabari. She hopes this project will grow into something that builds lasting connections between students from different parts of the world and fosters a spirit of learning, kindness, and global friendship.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 9, 202515 min

Ep 43Mickey Moroz '09: Sports & Family Medicine, Traveling with Team Canada & the Osler Fellowship

Dr. Mickey Moroz '09 graduated from McGill University Medical School in 2016 and completed his family medicine residency in 2018. He then pursued a fellowship training in Sport and Exercise Medicine and a Master's degree in Healthcare Education at Ottawa University in 2019 and 2021, respectively. He currently works as a family physician in Montreal and as a sports medicine physician at McGill University for the men’s Varsity Football and Rugby Teams, and at Concordia University for the men’s Varsity Hockey team. He is the chief medical officer of Artistic Gymnastics Canada (GymCan) and of Waterpolo Canada at the Institut national du sport du Québec. He also sits as an elected member of the board of directors of the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM), and works as a member of the Sport Medicine Advisory Committee composed of chief medical officers from the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Team Physician Committee of CASEM. In 2023 he won the Transition to Clinical Practice Award for Excellence in Teaching. Furthermore, for the last four years he has participated in the Osler Fellow program at McGill, which pairs mentors with six medical students in their first year of medical school in order to guide, support and teach them about the concept of physicianship.Dr. Moroz was the recipient of the J. Donald Boudreau Award for Physicianship in 2023. This award is student driven and is presented to a senior Osler Fellow who has consistently demonstrated the qualities of mentorship, pedagogy, and role-modelling espoused by the physicianship program.  Recently Dr. Moroz represented Canada on a national and international level. In 2022, he worked at the Canada Summer Games as a physician. More recently, he acted as the chief medical officer for Team Canada at the Jeux de la francophonie in the Democratic Republic of Congo which is an event that brings together all French nations of the world for a three-week multisport and artistic competition. Dr. Moroz was part of the medical services team for the 2023 Pan American Summer Games in Santiago, Chile. Following the Panam Games, he was selected to be one of the physicians to care for the Canadian Olympic Team at the 2024 Paris Olympics. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 7, 202549 min

Ep 42Olivia Masella '16, Pre-U '17: Making Cancer Treatment More Accessible

Olivia Masella, '16, Pre-U '17 is a third year PhD student at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC. Her research is focused on developing a novel low-cost radiotherapy device to increase access in low-resource settings such as low- and middle-income countries and rural regions. She holds a BSc in physics from the University of Waterloo, where she researched a vascular spheroid growth model (in silico) and developed a chemotherapy model to simulate treatments. Olivia has been exposed to several different research areas such as Monte Carlo Modelling, radiation safety, commissioning, and deep learning techniques. She is actively engaged in the community, having recently helped organize the Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics Conference this past summer.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Feb 7, 202522 min

Ep 41Tegan Webster, Pre-U '99: Understanding the Importance of Boundaries and Healthy Relationships in Youth, Friendships and Intimate Partnerships

Tegan Webster holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) from New York University. Since 2006, she has dedicated her career to supporting women impacted by domestic violence. Tegan began her journey at Auberge Shalom, initially serving as a counsellor at their emergency shelter for three years, where she provided critical support to women in crisis. She then transitioned to their external counselling office, where she has spent over a decade empowering women through trauma informed therapy and advocacy. Tegan is particularly passionate about advocating for legal justice for her clients, ensuring that they have the support and representation they need to navigate complex legal challenges.With nearly two decades of experience at Auberge Shalom, Tegan remains deeply committed to the fight against intimate partner violence and is passionate about empowering women to reclaim their lives. In addition to her work at Auberge Shalom, Tegan serves as a director on the board of the R.H. Webster Family Foundation. Outside of her professional work, she is a dedicated mother of three children, aged 13, 9, and 7.Resources:Helpful for teens: www.loveisrespect.orgkidshealth.org/en/teens/assertiveIPV Outside Canada: www.thehotline.orgIPV Quebec: www.sosviolenceconjugale.ca/enAuberge Shalom:www.aubergeshalom.org24/7 Support Line 514-731-0833 Counselling Services 514-485-4783 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jan 9, 20251h 1m

Ep 40Hugh Verrier '73: An Inside Look at Law - Its Past, Present & Future

Hugh Verrier is the Chairman of White & Case LLP, a global law firm with 39 offices in 26 countries. With White & Case for 34 years, Hugh has been Chairman since 2007 and directs the Firm’s strategy and operations around the world. A New York-qualified lawyer, Hugh spent most of his career with White & Case overseas in Indonesia, Turkey and Russia, where his practice was focused on the development of natural resources. Hugh has law degrees from the University of Ottawa and Harvard Law School. He clerked for Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Canada.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dec 9, 202439 min

Ep 39Derek Covington '86: Well-Being and Mind-Set in High Performance Sport

Derek's journey into the field of performance wellbeing and mindfulness has been a blend of passion, curiosity, necessity, and serendipity—a journey shaped over a lifetime. It began in his early days as a national-level hurdler striving to qualify for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Eight years after missing the Olympics as an athlete, he entered the Sydney 2000 Games as a performance manager, launching a twenty-five-year career that spanned nine Olympic Games in high-performance sport. What started as an experiment in preparing the Tokyo Olympic team through mindfulness unfolded into a deeply personal and professional journey. Curious about its potential, he committed wholeheartedly through a training certification at UCSD, exploring how mindfulness could transform the way his approached his work and his own life.Mindfulness spoke to him personally as much as it did professionally. As an introvert and chronic overthinker, he often felt anxious, overwhelmed, and driven by a relentless urgency to get things done perfectly. In the high-pressure environment of the Games, he struggled with sustainable ways to manage himself and often bottled up his emotions, projecting calm on the outside while feeling entirely tangled inside.His journey has since broadened to include certification in elite athlete performance wellbeing through Loughborough University's collaboration with the Wellbeing Science Institute, allowing him to combine his passion for strategy, performance, and well-being in how he works with athletes, coaches, organizations and teams. Always at the forefront of performance, he remains fully engaged in sport, actively championing excellence in his role as High Performance Director in athletics, embedding mindfulness and performance wellbeing into the very fabric of the pathway from grassroots to high level sport.Also, as the Head of Performance Well-being and Mindfulness at www.innerstride.co, he works with high-performing individuals and teams to help them flourish to reach their full potential through coaching, training programs, and strategy implementation. Their approach integrates different disciplines to maximize not only athletic performance but also overall well-being.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nov 6, 202444 min

Ep 38Sarah Bullock & Angela Rashotte: How Inclusive Education is Changing the Way Learners Learn & Teachers Teach

Sarah Bullock holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University, specializing in psychology and elementary education. Over the past four years, she has worked as the cycle 2 math teacher at LCC, where she places a focus in her classroom on inclusive education practices, centers, and project-based learning.Angela Rashotte has over twenty years of experience in elementary education, and is committed to fostering a love of learning in all students. She holds an M.A. in Curriculum from McGill University and serves as the Junior School math coordinator. Currently, she teaches grade 6 English, GHCE, and Math, as well as grade 5 math. In recent years, she has focused on incorporating inclusive learning methods into her classroom to ensure that all students feel valued, supported, and have equal opportunities to succeed.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Oct 9, 202424 min

Ep 37Rene Balcer '71: A Hollywood Writer’s Real Focus

René Balcer is a Canadian-American television writer, director, producer and showrunner, as well as a photographer and documentary film-maker. Born in Montréal in 1954, he studied photography and visual representation at Concordia University. Inspired by such artists as Edward Hopper and Ed Ruscha and photographers Robert Capa, Leonard Freed, and Liliane De Cock, Balcer began his photography work in 1968. Eschewing studio work and staged images, Balcer searches for natural compositions that suggest a sense of disquietude and an implied or hidden narrative, as well as images that engage his interest in social justice.Balcer is noted for writing and showrunning the television series Law & Order, and for creating and showrunning its spin-off series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. He was hired as staff writer on Law & Order's first season in 1990, becoming showrunner in the show's seventh season in 1996. During his tenure as showrunner, Law & Order won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series.In writing about legal issues, Balcer has drawn on his own experiences with law enforcement and his first-hand encounter with the brutal application of authoritarian power - at age 16, he was picked up as a suspected FLQ sympathizer during Quebec's October Crisis in 1970 and held overnight in the Montreal Police's infamous Station 10 where he was interrogated and beaten, before being released the next day. That experience, he says, gave him a harsh introduction to the reality lived by many disadvantaged communities.While pursuing an award-winning career in film and television in Los Angeles, he has continued his photography practice, completing such photo essays as “Desaparecidos” and “Beleaguered Trees of Los Angeles.” On June 20, 2024, Balcer's first solo photography show in New York City opened at the Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary Gallery. The show, René Balcer: Forensics, focused on his photography work in Argentina - "In Forensics, Balcer’s photos speak to the complicity of silence during the years of modern-day caudillos in Latin America and to society’s willful blindness in the face of today’s rising authoritarianism in the Americas. In making these images, Balcer was moved by his own experiences during Québec’s 1970 October Crisis in his native Montréal. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sep 9, 202438 min

Ep 36Tammy Groff: Transitions from Elementary to Middle School and Beyond

With a distinguished career spanning over two decades in educational leadership, Tammy Groff has consistently demonstrated a commitment to fostering academic excellence and holistic student development. Currently serving as the Director of Middle School at Lower Canada College in Montréal, Tammy oversees a comprehensive range of responsibilities including mentoring middle school teachers in goal-setting and evaluation, implementing the school’s strategic plan, and supporting the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program (MYP) curriculum.Previously, she held the role of Interim Director of Educational Services at Villa Maria, where she managed a diverse team of educators and spearheaded strategic initiatives such as Education 3.0 and project-based learning implementations. Her tenure involved overseeing budget management, school calendar planning, and enhancing parent-teacher communications.Prior to Tammy’s role at Villa Maria, she served as Assistant Director of Educational Services, focusing on policy development, student supervision, and curriculum implementation across academic and student life programs. Her leadership contributions were also notable during her tenure as Vice-Principal at St. Thomas High School, where she collaborated closely with the MYP Coordinator and resource teachers to ensure inclusive education practices for students with special needs.Tammy's career trajectory includes pivotal roles at Centennial Academy, where she served as Director of Middle School and Level Coordinator, overseeing curriculum development and faculty mentoring. Her dedication to educational advancement is underscored by her academic credentials, including a Master's in Educational Leadership from McGill University and ongoing professional development in educational methodologies and leadership strategies.Throughout her career, Tammy has participated in numerous conferences and workshops, enhancing her expertise in areas such as assessment strategies, 21st-century teaching methodologies, and fostering inclusive school environments.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 8, 202431 min

Ep 35Olivia Auclair '12: The Role of Nutrition and the Impact on the Environment

Olivia obtained her BSc in Nutritional Science from McGill University in 2018, then went on to complete her MSc (‘20) and recently, her PhD (‘24) from McGill in Animal Science. Her graduate research involved use of national dietary data from the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey - Nutrition to assess the role of animal and plant protein foods in Canadian sustainable diets. Her latest project published in Nature Food modeled the nutrition, health, and climate impacts of partially substituting animal with plant protein foods in Canadian self-selected diets. She recently started a post-doc at the University of Oxford involving modeling the health implications of food and agricultural policies in the UK and Europe.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 4, 202428 min

Ep 34Chris Shannon, Pre-U '76 & David Bensadoun '87, Pre-U '88: Looking ahead

Christopher Shannon joined LCC in 2005. Since then he has overseen the implementation of three strategic plans, the school’s most successful fundraising initiatives and the construction of several state-of-the art learning facilities. Under his leadership, LCC has also developed a clear vision for campus and program development with an emphasis on program excellence, innovation and sustainability. This includes a more global orientation with the adoption of the IB curriculum in the high school, active membership in the Round Square International Association of Schools and broad student participation in the Duke of Edinburgh leadership programs.During his tenure at LCC, Mr. Shannon has been President of the QAIS and served on the boards of CAIS, Round Square and the Vimy Foundation, which provides unique learning opportunities for young Canadians exploring Canada’s notable WWI legacy. Prior to coming to LCC, Mr. Shannon served for six years as head of school at Stanstead College in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.A fluently bilingual Montrealer, Christopher Shannon graduated from Selwyn House School and from Pre-University at LCC, making him the first alumnus to head Lower Canada College. He pursued his education at Queen’s (B.A.), Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales – University of Geneva (Master's in International Affairs) and Brock University in Ontario (Master's in Educational Administration). Chris and his wife Hilary have two children: Leah (Pre-U ’06) and Matthew ’07 (Pre-U ’08), both proud graduates of LCC.David Bensadoun has been the chief executive officer of the ALDO Group since 2017 and is the fourth generation of his family to work in the shoe business. Leading up to his appointment as CEO, he worked in almost every corner of the business, including operations, buying, IT, headed the Call It Spring brand and created a wholesale division of the ALDO brand. A forward-thinking leader with progressive ideas, David’s commitment to corporate social responsibility has seen the company instill a low carbon strategy and become the first fashion footwear and accessories company in the world to be certified as climate neutral for its offices and stores. He is a firm believer in hands-on philanthropy, and he has succeeded in pairing two of his greatest passions: his drive to give back and rally racing, by participating in a series of international racing events that helped raise over $200,000 for AIDS research. David and his wife Isabelle have three children: Connor ’28, Sloan ’26 and Logan.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 7, 202423 min

Ep 33Robert Ravinsky '02: Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon Practicing Non Nobis Solum

Dr. Robert Ravinsky '02 is a dual-fellowship trained orthopaedic spine surgeon with clinical interests in adult deformity and adult degenerative conditions, including complex revisions of the cervical and thoracolumbar spine. He is additionally interested in the use of novel technologies and the implementation of minimally invasive surgical techniques.A native of Montreal, Quebec, Dr. Ravinsky attended McGill University for his bachelor of science degree, followed by his medical doctorate. He subsequently completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Toronto, followed by fellowships in spinal surgery at Toronto Western Hospital and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He also completed a Master of Public Health at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Department of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. Ravinsky was in practice for three years in Phoenix, Arizona.Outside of his clinical practice, Dr. Ravinsky is interested in international medicine, and has ongoing collaborations with the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine (FOCOS) in Accra, Ghana where he has volunteered and recently completed a medical mission in February and March of 2022. Dr. Ravinsky is actively involved in research on spinal disorders. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters, and he has presented scientific research at both national and international conferences.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 9, 202428 min

Ep 32Krista McNally '02: The Importance of Adventure in our Lives

Krista McNally '02 is the founder and retreat facilitator at Heartventures. She is a curator of experiences ranging from international retreats, enneagram personality workshops, hot stone restorative yoga classes and creating memorable vacation stays as an Airbnb Superhost in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She helps individuals and teams find meaningful connection and leadership development through self-awareness and adventure. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 9, 202428 min

Ep 31Jackson Labell-Nevard '18, Pre-U '19 & Maya Wou '19: The Marriage of Education & Tech & How AI Can Assist Educators in Grading

Jackson Labell '18, Pre-U '19 has delved into the worlds of entrepreneurship, finance, and tech. After his time at LCC, he founded a non-profit organization, became the youngest hire at his Morgan Stanley Wealth Management branch, and successfully managed a tutoring service while studying computer science at New York University. As a tutor, he noticed that students often wait weeks for grades and need more feedback on their work. In response, Jackson founded Teztus, an ed-tech startup using AI to assist educators in grading. The platform saves teachers time and provides students with more personalized feedback.Maya Wou '19 LCC is the creative director at Teztus. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Concordia University, while skillfully handling the graphic design of the platform and playing a vital role in the company's marketing and branding strategies. A lifelong artist, her creative prowess significantly contributes to Teztus' distinct and standout presence.In the past few months, they have successfully bootstrapped their launch and secured paid pilot contracts with educational institutions in the US and Canada. The Teztus team also includes LCC alumni Matthew Barg '18 and Helen Zhang '18, Pre-U '19.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 8, 202425 min
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