Influencer News Archive
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That Voice
May 2, 2019 —
Meet Faouzia Ouihya, singer-songwriter who shuffles between classes and the Billboard charts.
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Listen Closely
October 24, 2018 —
Meet composer Luke Nickel, who loves the mystery of sound—and never got to play the harp.
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Inspired Space
May 1, 2018 —
Meet Cheyenne Thomas, a force behind the vision for the Indigenous Peoples’ Garden.
![Zahra Baseri photo by Mary Rose](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Zahra-150x150.jpg)
Unveiling Zahra
October 19, 2017 —
Zahra Baseri’s school headmaster in Iran warned her often that girls shouldn’t ride bicycles. Any female who dared to do so would endure a painful fate in the afterlife.
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Speak Up
May 1, 2017 —
Chimwemwe Undi [BA(Adv)/16] loves to see quirky misspellings on Twitter, like Pre-Madonna. While grammarians get mad, the 22-year- old linguistics grad—a rising star in Canadian spoken word poetry—gets excited.
![Michelle McHale (left) and her partner Karen Phillips lead thousands of revelers at Pride Steinbach on July 9, 2016. // PHOTO BY TREVOR HAGAN](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/12191989_CMYK_skyedit-150x150.jpg)
Worth the Trip
September 26, 2016 —
Only a few short years ago, Michelle McHale had a clear message for her same-sex partner: “I’m not ashamed by our relationship, but I’m not going to run down the street carrying a rainbow flag.”