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My PhD research topic is nutrition and lighting in broiler breeders, the parents of your chicken nuggets. I am looking at how day length during rearing influences the performances of the hens, so practically how many good quality eggs the hen lays. At Wageningen University, I was teaching assistant for several courses, student representative of the Animal Breeding and Genetics chair group and member of several other committees. I have volunteered on several events such as the ALES100 open days and I am actively engaging undergraduate students in (poultry) research. I have been an active leader in the Poultry Research Centre Student Club for the last two years and I have been representative for the Agriculture Food and Nutritional Science department of the Graduate Student Association of the Faculty of Agriculture Life and Environmental Sciences during the 2015-2016 academic year.

I ran for Vice-President Labour again this year as I experienced in my first term that many graduate student are facing issues with employment at the University of Alberta. My experience over the last year has given me a broad scope on the issues, and prepared me well for the negotiations for the next Collective Agreement, coming up this year. I have a clear, direct, and helpful nature, which will allow me to be an effective negotiator and helps me to continue supporting graduate students within the wide range of challenging environments here at the U of A.