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SENECA ALUMNI AT 50

How amazing are our alumni? We tell you every year in the pages of RED and this year is no different. As Seneca prepares to celebrate our 50th anniversary, here is a sample of numbers about our alumni, thanks to LinkedIn and Seneca’s records. They’re impressive.

190,000+

graduates on record

11,338

business owners, founders and co-founders

2,445

CEOs

11,037

presidents and vice presidents

9,460

professional artists and designers

One senator (Vivienne Poy), five Olympians (including two-time medalist Brian Price) and the first black Canadian to hold a cabinet position in Ontario (Alvin Curling)

Graduates from 140 countries

Largest current employer: TD Bank

Nine winners of the Premier’s Award for College Graduates (since 1992)

Two of the first three women inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (Angela James and Geraldine Heaney)

Do you have an impressive Seneca stat to share?
Let us know alumni@senecacollege.ca

Supporting your community and finding your place in it

PHOTO: JOANNE RATAJCZAK

Community builders (l to r) Monica Rutledge, Roxanne Kropf-Salami and Peggy Pitawanakwat.

“I got the teaching. It took away my anger. I started to learn about myself and my belonging.”

Roxanne Kropf-Salami
Child/Youth Mental Health Addictions Worker, Enaahtig Healing Lodge and Learning Centre

Monica Rutledge
Constable, Aboriginal Peackeeping Unit, Toronto Police Serivce

ROXANNE KROPF-SALAMI was two months old when she met her new mother. It was 1985 on the Tsay Keh Dene First Nation in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. The “Sixties Scoop” that removed Indigenous children from their families into the child welfare system was still in practice in Canada. In fear of losing her newborn, Roxanne’s teenage mother asked Norma, a German-Mennonite teacher on the reserve, to adopt Roxanne.

A graduate of Seneca’s Social Service Worker – Immigrants and Refugees program, Roxanne says that while Norma kept her close to her Indigenous culture, “I went off my path for a while.” After both her birth mother and Norma died, she ran away on a school trip in the United States. Making her way to Toronto, Roxanne stayed in shelters until she got a factory job making baked goods.

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