30th Anniversary Celebration

For more than 75 years, Fulbright has played an essential role in facilitating mutual understanding, supporting diversity, and championing inclusion through opportunity. The prestigious Fulbright Canada Program has supported more than 2500 exchange opportunities for genuinely outstanding students and scholars. This highlights the vision and the quality of colleges and Universities in our two countries.

In May, we celebrated 30+ incredible years of the Fulbright Program in Canada with an event in Vancouver, B.C. This event recognized valued leaders, alums, and partners, who continue to unite to build capacity and enhance mutual understanding across Canada and the United States. We took this opportunity to highlight our significant growth in western Canada and announce the opening of the Fulbright Canada West Office.

The Master of Ceremonies for the evening was Honouring Nations Canada Co-Director Candace Wasacase-Lafferty. Featured speakers include Louise B. Halfe - Sky Dancer, Parliament’s Poet Laureate, D. Brent Hardt, U.S. Consul General in Vancouver, Dr. Santa Ono, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia, and the newly appointed Ambassador for Social Connectedness, Ms. Kim Samuel.