New & Emerging Professional Awards

2024 Award Winner

We are delighted to announce the 2024 New & Emerging Professional Award winner – Samantha McRae from Conestoga College!

Sam is a strong IR professional who truly embodies the “Student of Data, Data Serving Students”. Sam’s passionate commitment to collaborate and contribute meaningfully underlies all her endeavours. Sam supports the College IRP mandate in numerous ways, such as, designing and reporting on stakeholder feedback, researching and reporting program information to support major quality assurance initiatives, preparing Labour Market reports that analyze and present considerations of new programs, and undertaking ad-hoc reporting to provide strategic planning and decision-making information.

Sam is newly engaging with the IRP practitioners through her first in-person presence at the CIRPA 2024 conference. She has much to offer and contribute to not only Conestoga College but also the overall field of IRP practice and its future in the coming years.

For her incipient contributions to the field and to recognize the potential for further development, CIRPA is pleased to grant the 2024 New & Emerging Professional Award to Samantha McRae!