First & Proud
Check out some of our first-generation faculty members, staff & students!
Broderick听
Doctoral student in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
鈥淎s a first generation student, I am excited to go to where my parents could only hope to go. McGill will open doors for me that my family never had available to them before.鈥�
Dennis听
Assistant Professor of Educational and Counselling Psychology
鈥淚 always enjoy spending time with others who are/were First Generation college students, because they are some of the most interesting, hard-working, and talented people.鈥�
Skyla听
U0 student Majoring Environmental Studies
鈥淚鈥檓 so excited to start my McGill experience after taking a year off school. I鈥檓 excited to learn about the things that I am passionate about and meeting new people!鈥�
Yann
U1 Student in the Faculty of Arts
鈥淚鈥檓 really excited to study at McGill as a First-Generation Student because this university provides me a whole new experience compared to everything I鈥檝e been through before, with so many international students around, and just an awesome atmosphere to be part of, within an awesome city to be part of as well!鈥�
Timothy
U0 student Majoring in Chemistry听
鈥淚鈥檓 excited to be at McGill because it鈥檚 the first time I鈥檒l be living alone, without friends or family in Montr茅al. It鈥檒l be interesting to learn how to cope on my own, and I鈥檓 lookout forward to it!鈥�
April听
Liaison Librarian at Macdonald-Stewart Library Building
鈥淚 arrived at McGill as a First Generation student in 1993. I was both excited and terrified! It is now my great pleasure to work as a librarian in the very place that molded me into the person I am today.鈥�