Faculty of Law student, alumni in Ace Burpee’s Top 100 Most Fascinating Manitobans of 2024
At least four members of the Robson Hall community including a current law student and three alumni were included in Ace Burpee’s list of Top 100 Most Fascinating Manitobans of 2024, released December 21.
Tréchelle Bunn (2L) was recognized for her many achievements and initiatives including establishing the Reconciliation Run half-marathon, being elected as a youth chief of the Southern Chiefs Organization and receiving a Manitoba Indigenous Youth Achievement Award.
The Honourable Murray Sinclair, C.C., O.M., M.S.C., K.C. [LLB/79] was posthumously recognized for his legacy of dedicating his life to giving a voice to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Manitoba and across Canada.
Chimwemwe Undi [BA/16; JD/20],Winnipeg’s Poet Laureate, was included as a Winnipeg 150 medal recipient, and a John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award winner whose debut full-length poetry collection titled Scientific Marvel won the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry.
Corporate lawyer Genevieve Mushaluk [JD/16] was the first Manitoban to participate on the TV show Survivor. She made it into the top 5 of season 47 before exiting in fifth place.