Monica Martinez

You are the president of La Voz (Boyd's Latino law student group), which was recently voted the law school's Student Organization of the Year.  Tell us why this year has been such a success for La Voz.

I attribute the success of La Voz to all the support we received by engaging with the student body and other organizations. The executive board meetings were conducted in a round table method and that gave each member of La Voz an equal opportunity for input and idea sharing. Conducting meetings like that allowed us to hear the concerns of our La Voz and Huellas members and the community

Ryan Saldanha

You did your undergraduate work at the University of Toronto, and you played four years of varsity football there.  Tell us about that experience. 

In one word, I would describe the experience as humbling. Humbling because football and school presented me with an unfortunate reality: there are countless people (much) more talented than me. To compete with all these talented people, I had to criticize myself, and transform many of my weaknesses into strengths. Importantly, football and school at the University of Toronto didn’t just teach me to embrace criticism— they taught me to actively