2025-2026 Catamount Cohort
Each Catamount Fellowship team is a trio, bringing together three perspectives and changemaking backgrounds: student, community practitioner, and faculty mentor. Together, the trio explores a complex challenge, grounded in a "How Might We" question, maps the system around it, and develops deeper understanding that can inform meaningful action. They worked to understand these wicked problems and reflected on their collaborative process and personal growth.
Over the 2025-2026 academic year, each Catamount Fellow embarked on deep learning with the community, hosted community engagement opportunities, and selected content as part of a portfolio of learning to share their insights. The works from this year's cohort include blog posts, a card game and self guided walk, scholarly reports, and facilitation and mentorship frameworks.
Explore the fourteen trios' systems issues and works below:
2025-2026 Trios
Clicking on any of the pictures or titles below will take you to the trio's portfolio.
Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
Angad Singh, Student Fellow
Ryan Watmough, Consultant - Town of Golden
Anh Thu Nguyen, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Social Innovation
Ayden Osvath, Student Fellow
Kate Heney, Trellis Society
Leda Stawnychko, General Management and Human Resources
Community Data for Collaborative Impact
Calyssa Weaver, Student Fellow
Alyssa Lindsay, Calgary Foundation
Elisabeth Richardson, Biology
Human-Centered Sustainable Tourism in Alberta
Helena Ansari, Student Fellow
Chloe Hahn, CPAWS
Kathy Rettie, Geography
Deepening Our Community Organizations
Julia Madden, Student Fellow
Tyson Bankert, Community Development Learning Initiative
Robin E. Owen, Biology
Responsible AI Growth & Water Sustainability
Lama Al-Wadeiah, Student Fellow
Shannon Smithwick, Canada WaterPortal
Lauren Dwyer, Information Design
Visualizing Fragmentation for Coordinated Action
Marie-Soleil Hudon, Student Fellow
Susan Brooke, United Way of Calgary and Area
Jamie Anne Vaughan, General Management and Human Resources
Family-Centered Systems of Care
Nicole Gallant, Student Fellow
Rebecca Foshole-Luke, Family Advocacy Support Centre (FASC).
Harpreet Aulakh, Criminal Justice
Youth Autonomy, Agency, and Access
Nichelle Sterling, Student Fellow
Agnes Chen, Starlings Community
Cherie Woolmer, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Oluchi Ebisike, Student Fellow
Ryan Andersen, Calgary Alliance for the Common Good
Esra Ari, Sociology and Anthropology
Rakhshi Malik, Student Fellow
Victoria Meah, Palix Foundation
Elaine Ori, Health and Physical Education
Stephanie Blencowe, Student Fellow
Derek Cook, Canadian Poverty Institute
Alejandro Terrones, Resilience Institute
Heather Nelson, General Education
Youth Engagement & Empowerment in Calgary
Thamar Derksen, Student Fellow
Sarah Hughes, Big Brothers Big Sisters
Kris Hans, General Management and Human Resources
Participating community partners
