{"id":1930,"date":"2024-03-05T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/?page_id=1930"},"modified":"2024-03-05T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:48:04","slug":"olivia-erickson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/archive\/womens-week-2024\/olivia-erickson\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Erickson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nominated by Dr. Bernadette Ardelli<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>She is currently completing her Bachelor of Science degree in the biomedical stream with a Chemistry minor and Biology (Honours in Immunology)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Her honours project investigates the sex-dependent inflammatory effects on mice after chronic microplastic exposure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>She is an outstanding role model for strengthening EDI in STEM at BU and beyond<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Olivia is a learner, an achiever, takes responsibility, provides meaningful input and leads by example<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Olivia was the first BU student to receive the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Black Student Researcher USRA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>She is proud of organizing and hosting Brandon\u2019s first Ball to honour Black history and to acknowledge the invaluable contributions of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>She is a powerful agent for change with an unwavering focus on assisting others to be successful<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>She co-organized the STEMinist Convention, an annual lunch and learn opportunity offered to girls in grades 7-12 attending the Western Manitoba Science Fair<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>She is an inspiration to young girls by advocating for disabled women, the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and women of all ethnicities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>She grew up in Brandon, MB<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>She currently works as the lead product developer at ReNu Hygienics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>She is currently BUSU\u2019s Racialized Director<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How will you #BreakTheBias?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will #BreakTheBias by existing as my authentic self to achieve my goals regardless of the environment, as society has not made space for individuals like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominated by Dr. Bernadette Ardelli She is currently completing her Bachelor of Science degree in the biomedical stream with a Chemistry minor and Biology (Honours in Immunology) Her honours project investigates the sex-dependent inflammatory effects on mice after chronic microplastic exposure She is an outstanding role model for strengthening EDI in STEM at BU and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1913,"parent":1900,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1930","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1930\/revisions\/1931"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/womens-week\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}