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After graduating from the BMus program at Queen’s, I now currently work as a centre rep for the Royal Conservatory of Music in Pickering, Ont., and manage a music school called The Song Spot in Whitby, Ont. We have almost 300 students and continue to grow each year. I am currently enrolled in the Music Business Management course at Durham College and cannot wait to expand my career from there! I continue to play music regularly in the GTA with various classical and contemporary groups. I hope my fellow alumni have continued their passion for music!

Victoria Granova was honoured as Canada's Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity by IT World Canada for 2021. Victoria is the Founder of CyberToronto, a community-focused cybersecurity organization that runs educational and training conferences for information security professionals in Canada. In December, her conference welcomed more than 700 people to learn from top industry CISOs and executives. She is also a cybersecurity instructor and a Ph.D student focusing on the intersection of psychology, cybersecurity and organizational behaviour. Victoria also recently joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Security Technical Program Manager.

On Sept. 25, 2021 myself and Brandon Ratz were married! We met at a wine and cheese party in 2015 at my student house on MacDonnell Street.

I got married this year (on April Fools’ Day!) to Zahin Hussain (Artsci’16). We met while we were at Queen’s, kept in touch, and started dating in 2020 when Zahin moved back to Canada (after working in Vietnam, Philippines, and South Korea). We were quite involved in the Queen’s community during our time there: Zahin was the President of AIESEC Queen’s; I was the President of the Queen’s International Affairs Association; we were both in the executive of the Queen’s South Asian Association; and I was recognized with the Tricolour Award. I have been appointed as the Government of Ontario’s representative in India, where I will be leading the Ontario Trade and Investment Offices. 

Scott and Catherine are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Charlotte Anne, who was born on July 8, 2021.

Just sharing my good news as a hire to Queen’s in January 2020. I moved to Kingston from Georgetown, Ont., to attend Queen’s in 2007, and couldn’t bring myself to leave after graduation. I completed my certified property manager certification in 2018 and was extremely excited to join the Queen’s Community Housing team in January 2020 after eight years in the property management industry. The pandemic definitely made my experiences as a new staff member interesting, but the team I work with has been fantastic and I’m happy I made the transition into this role. I’ve since purchased my first house in the west end, and I don’t foresee moving away from Kingston (or Queen’s) any time soon!