NOTE: This is one in a series of articles on Brock’s 2023-24 Horizon Graduate Student Scholarship recipients. Read other stories in the series on The Brock News.
A year into her university studies, Shamae Quinquito (BSc ’23) received news that has had a lasting impact on her and her family.
Her father lost his job due to COVID-19 pandemic layoffs, and she, her two sisters and mother had to take on additional work to support their already low-income family.
The money she had earned working full-time during a gap year between high school and university was already spent to cover the cost of her first-year courses, educational supplies and housing expenses to live away from her hometown, Kincardine.