About this issue

Dawn Dumont (BA’95) is a Plains Cree and Métis comedian and writer from Saskatchewan. Since starting her comedy career in Toronto, she has been making people laugh at clubs across North America, including the New York Comedy Club and Improv. She was the co-host of APTN’s Fish Out of Water and currently lives in Saskatoon with her partner and baby son who can drag a coffee table across the floor but refuses to hold his own bottle.

Braden Hursh (BA’16) will graduate with his English Honours degree this spring. He has been working with the arts & science communications office as an intern for his final semester of university. Braden continues to work as a farmer and bartender as he looks for opportunities with his new degree.

Shannon Kirk (BA’11) graduated from the College of Arts & Science with a BA Honours in art history. After moving east to complete a bachelor of journalism in Halifax, she darted west to Vancouver Island, where she is a freelance writer and web content producer, as well as an avid beach-stroller.

Chris Kuzma (BA’04) is a cartoonist, illustrator and artist living in Toronto. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan and the Ontario College of Art and Design. He currently teaches illustration and comics at OCADU. You can see more of his work at chriskuzma.com.

Christopher Putnam (BA’07) worked as a reporter in Saskatchewan weekly newspapers, as a researcher in crime television and as an online writer before joining the College of Arts & Science as a communications officer. He completed bachelor’s degrees in English at the U of S and in journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax.

Betsy Rosenwald is an artist, designer and writer who relocated to Saskatoon from New York City in 1999. Prior to joining the College of Arts & Science as a communications officer in 2007, she coordinated communications at the Mendel Art Gallery and was art editor for the literary magazine Grain. She earned a BA from Beloit College in Wisconsin and an MFA from Brooklyn College.

Kirk Sibbald completed a BA (‘04) in English at the U of S before receiving an MA in journalism at the University of Western Ontario. After working as editor of the Lloydminster Source newspaper, he returned to Saskatoon in 2008 and worked for eight years in the College of Arts & Science.

Paul Thagard (BA’71) is a renowned Canadian philosopher and cognitive scientist with advanced degrees from Cambridge University, the University of Toronto and the University of Michigan. A professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo, his many books include The Brain and the Meaning of Life and The Cognitive Science of Science.  He is one of the College of Arts & Science 2016 alumni of influence.