Alumni News

Maria Cardona Madero ’03 is the CFO of a personal loan company that grants loans to immigrants in the USA. She is married to Carlos Orvananos and has three children: Carlos (9), Maria Jose (7) and Diego (2).

for e-commerce businesses, and more recently, Liet, a workwear and military-heritage-inspired clothing company. He and his wife live in Montreal.

Cassandra Adams-Johnson (nee Lyall) ’08 is a Physiotherapist and Clinic Owner in Victoria, BC. She is married to Thomas and has three children Isabella(3), Oliver (2) and Charlotte (6 months).

After graduating in 2004, Kit Burke studied Forest Resource Management at UBC. He now works as the Planning Superintendent at Chetwynd Forest Industries where he oversees a team that manages West Fraser’s forest harvesting licenses in the South Peace. He and his wife Meghan married in 2015 and they live on a farmstead that they built from scratch.

Liam Sarsfield ’07 is an entrepreneur and designer who founded Fluorescent in 2015, a software design and development consultancy

Drew Seigel ’09 is the Construction Manager with Townline overseeing the construction and execution of Hudson House in Victoria, BC. Drew spends his free time riding motorcycles and fishing. He married Nicole Kennedy in July.

Brittanny Dzioba ’10 obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English from UVic and then her Master of Education, specializing in Adult Learning from UBC in 2022. She works in post-secondary educational development as a Learning and Teaching Advisor at BCcampus.

Leah Kuzmuk ’12 is a graduate student working toward her MSc in neuroscience doing oculomotor research with the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. In her free time, she is an avid cyclist and runner.

Agustina Flores Pitton ’19 is studying Civil Engineering at UBC where she recently finished leading a team of students to design, fundraise and build a nearly net zero carbon building on UBC’s campus. (https:// civil.ubc.ca/civil-engineering-students-take-on-the-challenge-ofdesigning-a-nearly-zero-carbon-building-lessons-learned-andachievements-gained/)

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