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Personal Definition of Sustainability
Ultimately, I believe sustainability means the ability to sustain our society in the long-run. Now, this definition begs the questions, what does the sustenance of our society really mean? What are the aspects that need to be changed, improved, abolished, and/or upheld? These are very complex and difficult questions and as I progress in my education and through my life, I am certain my belief will continue to change. Currently, I believe in equal opportunity and a person's right to the accessibility of human necessities and the approach that we, as a race, choose to take to achieve this goal must be one that can continue to operate for generations to come.

Sustainability-in-Action
Once I heard about the introduction of the sustainability club under the HBAA club portfolio, I wanted to get involved right away. I am currently speaking with both the co-founders, Nicole Harvey and Lucy Gao, to help shape the club for the next year and find a role that I can take.
Further, as a long-run member of Engineers Without Borders, I will be fulfilling a new executive position, UWO Chapter Campus External and Relations. This is a position that I carved out for myself based on my own personal interest and an opportunity that I saw that was underleveraged and could bring great value to the club. Currently there exists multiple social-centered clubs that operate independently from each other. I hope to act as a communicator or mediator, sitting in on bigger organization such as WSAA (western student advocacy association), to help realize opportunities to collaborate with organization with similar values and objective. Therefore, this summer, I will be starting to build this network by contacting club executives and building those relations.

Lastly, our world is a complex one with multiple variables, outputs, and stakeholders, though thus the solution or the proper approach is not a clear one, thus, I believe taking on the responsibility to continuously educated oneself is an important one. As I will be working in Toronto this summer, I plan on taking a few courses at the University of Toronto on foundational subjective such as economics, public policy, sociology, as I did not have this opportunity in my first two year at UWO before Ivey. Secondly, reading my peers' international development blogs - I have multiple acquaintances going overseas to Africa on various development efforts. I hope to stay in close contact with them throughout their progression. Thirdly, I would l hope to familiarize/involve myself with social business organizations such as Acumen Fund (there currently exists chapter in Toronto). Lastly, my reading list is long and continues to grow, including books such as Dead Aid and New Capitalist Manifesto.