Celebrating the recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Awards
The 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipients. Top row, from left: Sabrina Craig, Christina Kramer, Timothy Muttoo and Curtis Oland. Bottom row, from left: Sangita Patel, Hon. Justice Gregory Regis, Amorell Saunders N’Daw and Andrew Young.
Join us to celebrate eight extraordinary alumni at the Alumni Achievement Awards on Oct. 27.
The event begins at 6:30 p.m. ET via live stream. Visit this link to access the stream that day.
Among honourees, seven alumni will receive the Award of Distinction, and one will receive the Isadore Sharp Outstanding Recent Graduate award.
Meet the outstanding grads below.
Award of Distinction
Sabrina Craig
Business Technology Management ’19
Director, Vaccine Hunters Canada
Sabrina Craig was a director at Vaccine Hunters Canada (VHC), which millions of people have used to find their vaccinations.
Sabrina Craig was a director at Vaccine Hunters Canada (VHC), a volunteer community dedicated to connecting eligible Canadians with vaccination appointments. Craig scaled the organization to a management team of 150+ people and 400,000+ followers across Canada on platforms such as Discord, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok — accomplishing all this in just six months, all with volunteers (including herself), and all without corporate or government funding. Millions of Canadians used VHC and their tools to find their vaccinations. In 2022, she was named a Top 25 Women of Influence.
Christina Kramer
Business Management ’90
Senior Executive Vice-President and Group Head, Technology, Infrastructure and Innovation, CIBC
Christina Kramer is responsible for technology, infrastructure and innovation for CIBC worldwide.
Christina Kramer is responsible for technology, infrastructure and innovation for CIBC worldwide. Her team enables the efficient, reliable running of the bank, protecting CIBC from risks, and proactively partners with CIBC’s lines of business to accelerate growth by transforming how the bank operates, and meeting clients’ and team members’ evolving needs. Kramer leads a talented team and nurtures an inclusive culture focused on a shared purpose to help make clients’ ambitions a reality. Since joining CIBC in 1987, Kramer has held progressively more senior executive roles within CIBC’s retail, business banking and human resources groups. Most recently, she was senior executive vice-president and group head, personal and small business banking.
Timothy Muttoo
Chemical Engineering ’96
Chief Technology & Public Health Officer, H2O 4 ALL
In 2008, Timothy Muttoo co-founded the international nonprofit H2O 4 ALL, believing that people all over the globe have the same human rights as him, including the right to access safe water and adequate sanitation.
Timothy Muttoo co-founded the international non-profit H2O 4 ALL in 2008, believing that people all over the globe have the right to access safe water and adequate sanitation. He has initiated sustainable technology, development of tools and good practices in over 12 developing countries. Muttoo has spoken worldwide, from giving talks at scientific conferences and speaking to country governments to guest lecturing at various universities. In addition, he hires Toronto Metropolitan University co-op students and provides them with mentorship and hands-on experience to help them become more socially engaged engineers. In 2018, Muttoo received the G. Raymond Chang Outstanding Volunteer Award.
Sangita Patel
Electrical Engineering ’02
Host, ET Canada
In 2019, Patel was named the Canadian spokesperson for COVERGIRL’s Simply Ageless Collection and is the company’s first Canadian South Asian ambassador.
Sangita Patel is an engineer turned television personality who worked her way up the Canadian news landscape. She joined ET Canada in 2014, covering entertainment news and interviewing some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, and became the co-host in 2022. She is also the host of HGTV Canada’s home renovation series Home to Win. In 2019, Patel was named COVERGIRL’s first Canadian South Asian ambassador and spokesperson. A strong believer in education, she is a supporter of Pathways to Education, Children’s Wish and ONE Campaign. In 2021, Patel spearheaded ET Canada’s HELP INDIA broadcast special, helping to raise over $135,000 for the Humanitarian Coalition’s emergency response efforts in India.
Hon. Justice Gregory Regis
Journalism ’77
Former Regional Senior Justice, Ontario Court of Justice
Gregory Regis has been a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice since 1999. His judicial career is anchored in the principle that all citizens must have full and fair access to the justice system.
Gregory Regis has been a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice since 1999. In 2007, he became the first person of colour in Canada to be appointed a Regional Senior Justice. Before entering the legal profession, Regis had a successful career as a journalist and editor with Associated Press and CBC Radio and Television, among other international news services. He is an active community leader and has served in leadership positions in several organizations focused on development and culture. Regis is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Toronto Metropolitan University, the Vice-Chancellor’s Award from the University of the West Indies and the Harry Jerome Lifetime Achievement Award.
Amorell Saunders N’Daw
Journalism ’88
Partner, KBRS
Among many distinctions, Amorell Saunders N’Daw served as a member of the university’s Standing Strong Task Force and is a recipient of the G. Raymond Chang Outstanding Volunteer Award.
A partner in KBRS’s National Academic Search Practice and the firm’s equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) lead, N’Daw uses her unique combination of corporate communications, governance, and EDI skills and experience to assist organizations in the search and recruitment process. She also provides EDI counsel and training to organizational leaders. She served as a member of the university’s Standing Strong Task Force and is a recipient of the G. Raymond Chang Outstanding Volunteer Award. The Amorell Saunders N’Daw Award for Equity Leadership was recently established at The Creative School, giving promising Black and equity-deserving students additional support to realize their potential.
Andrew Young
Business Technology Management ’11
Founder and Director, Vaccine Hunters Canada
Andrew Young started Vaccine Hunters Canada on March 19, 2021, to help people protect loved ones by posting vaccine availability via social media. He was recently named #1 on Toronto Life's Top 50 Most Influential Torontonians.
In March 2021, Andrew Young started Vaccine Hunters Canada (VHC), a volunteer community with the mission of connecting eligible Canadians to COVID-19 vaccines. VHC posted vaccine availability via social media and had over 100 volunteers and 500,000 followers. A year later, VHC ended operations, after helping millions of Canadians get vaccinated from coast to coast to coast. Recognition highlights in 2021 include the Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities’ Award of Excellence, U.K. Commonwealth Point of Light Award, and being named #1 on Toronto Life’s Top 50 Most Influential Torontonians. Young is currently a web developer at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Isadore Sharp Outstanding Recent Graduate
Curtis Oland
Fashion Design ’17
Fashion Designer
After completing his studies, Curtis Oland won the Emerging Menswear Design Award at Toronto Men’s Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2017.
Originally from the B.C. Okanagan Valley and currently based in Berlin, Curtis Oland is an Indigenous Lil’Wat and Scottish-settler garment designer and interdisciplinary artist. His connection to his Indigenous heritage, to the supernatural, mountainous landscapes of his homeland, and his experiences as an international nomad, have created an essence of raw, subdued wilderness that celebrates and honours land and materiality. His work traverses the realms of art, fashion, performance, installation, film and creative direction. He has worked on collaboratively driven projects that allow for diverse and imaginative storytelling. Since completing his studies, Oland has exhibited work across Canada, and abroad in the U.K., the Netherlands and Switzerland.