At simply 35 years previous, Jason Ribeiro (MEd ’15) has already turn out to be a frontrunner in each his discipline and his group.
Ribeiro was acknowledged in absentia for his accomplishments and group influence because the 2023 Brock College Alumni Affiliation’s (BUAA) Excellent Younger Alumni award recipient throughout Brock’s Alumni Recognition Reception on Saturday, Sept. 16.
After overcoming strife in his early to younger grownup life, Ribeiro has been steadfast in his dedication to bridging Calgary’s various communities by way of sport and leisure, and is pushed to create a way of belonging for individuals who want it most.
He has spent practically a decade volunteering with a number of teams in Calgary to advocate for group sport and recreation, together with Sport Calgary, International Shapers Calgary and Schooling Issues.
Final October, Ribeiro mixed his ardour for sport, youth mentorship and group to assist deliver an expert basketball franchise to Calgary because the President and Vice-Chairman of the Calgary Surge.
What began out as a textual content change between associates about buying a workforce has since changed into a “stunning medley of younger folks, skilled basketball gamers, coaches and group members,” he says.
“My experiences at Brock taught me learn how to be a real member of a workforce and push the needle on enhancing your area people.”
The Calgary Surge originated because the Guelph Nighthawks in 2018, one of many six founding members of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL). The league was created with a mission to develop Canadian gamers, coaches, sports activities executives and referees. It at present boasts the very best proportion of Canadian gamers of any skilled league within the nation with 71 per cent of its rosters being Canadian.
With Ribeiro’s management, the Calgary Surge aspires to turn out to be an anchor establishment that enhances the financial, social and cultural well-being of Calgary yr spherical, striving to amplify and help native expertise, firms and causes as a part of by way of its recreation day expertise and group engagement.
Jason Ribeiro (MEd ’15) (left) acquired the Brock College Alumni Affiliation Excellent Younger Alumni Award from Brock College Alumni Affiliation President Chris Ventura (BA ’12, MEd ’17).
Whereas he’s labored exhausting to beat his personal challenges and create areas of belonging for others, Ribeiro acknowledges his success didn’t occur in a vacuum.
“I can’t assist however to consider all the opposite folks’s tales who’ve intersected with mine which have allowed me to be standing right here at present to obtain this humbling honour,” says Ribeiro. “It’s much less about my particular person achievements, however extra about all of the unimaginable individuals who have supported me alongside the way in which.”
Whereas he wasn’t acquainted with analysis or what the graduate expertise would entail when he started his grasp’s at Brock, Ribeiro was assured within the help and steerage of his analysis supervisor, Camille Rutherford, Affiliate Professor within the School of Schooling.
“I’m very grateful Camille was a part of my earlier graduate scholar expertise whereas I realized learn how to flex my tutorial muscle groups,” Ribeiro says. “Brock not solely has superb researchers to study from, but additionally unimaginable mentors and other people which are there to help you all through these large leaps in life.”
After graduating from Brock in 2015 with a Grasp of Schooling, Riberio moved to Alberta to increase on his analysis on the College of Calgary, the place he’s at present pursuing his Physician of Philosophy in Management, Coverage and Governance.
Ribeiro has grown into an awarded researcher and revealed creator within the discipline of training and sometimes represents the views of on a regular basis group members at boardroom tables and as a weekly radio and tv contributor for International Information.
“Jason has achieved an immense quantity of success in his private {and professional} life,” says BUAA President Chris Ventura. “As a fellow younger alumnus, it’s inspiring to see what he’s been capable of obtain in such a short while since graduating from Brock College.”
Nominations for the 2024 alumni awards are being accepted on the Alumni Relations website till Wednesday, Jan. 31.
