Rockmount Speaker Series with special guest Dr. Irene Bloemraad
May 9, 2019 - Calgary Petroleum Club - free lunchtime event
WHY CANADIANS LOVE IMMIGRATION, AND AMERICANS AREN'T SO SURE - PowerPoint Presentation
May 9, 2019 - Calgary Petroleum Club - free lunchtime event
WHY CANADIANS LOVE IMMIGRATION, AND AMERICANS AREN'T SO SURE - PowerPoint Presentation
Dr. Irene Bloemraad is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies. Dr. Bloemraad is the founding Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, and holds the position of Senior Fellow with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. In 2014-15, she served as a member of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences committee reporting on the integration of immigrants into American society.
Dr. Bloemraad's research was highlighted in the Globe And Mail. See Polarized politics could shatter Canada’s fragile ‘virtuous cycle’ of immigration by Andrew Steele.
Rockmount has had the privilege of hearing Dr. Irene Bloemraad speak at one of our previous Speaker Series (Migrating People, Migrating Ideas: Policy lessons Canada and the US can teach each other) which included Jason Kenney who was the Federal Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism at that time.
Dr. Bloemraad's research was highlighted in the Globe And Mail. See Polarized politics could shatter Canada’s fragile ‘virtuous cycle’ of immigration by Andrew Steele.
Rockmount has had the privilege of hearing Dr. Irene Bloemraad speak at one of our previous Speaker Series (Migrating People, Migrating Ideas: Policy lessons Canada and the US can teach each other) which included Jason Kenney who was the Federal Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism at that time.
Russell Kalmacoff, President of Rockmount Financial Corporation with Gerda Bloemraad, retired lawyer and mother of Dr. Irene Bloemraad
Left to right: Dr. Irene Bloemraad, Professor Janaka Ruwanpura, University of Calgary, Vice-Provost (International) and Roy Berg, International Tax Lawyer
Corinna Dafoe, Rockmount's Executive Assistant/Office Manager with Khalid Asaria, Analyst at Rockmount Financial Corporation