Melissa Gauthier a wife and mother to three wonderful children, co-owned and worked in a cleaning company as the administrator for five years. She’s a graduate of office administration and marketing. She has always enjoyed planning activities right down to the last bit of pieces. When the pandemic hit, she saw this as an opportunity to pursue her dreams, she finished her high school diploma in those three months while attending online classes. She is now a full-time student in the event management program at Algonquin College. After she graduates in spring 2021, her goal is to pursue a career as a wedding planner and she also has future plans of one day opening a venue to host all types of events.
In her spare time you will mostly find her spending time with her family, shopping, trying to figure out a workout routine from home, practicing photography and testing out new creativity

I am a social worker as a profession, began my career path back in India. Currently doing my studies on event management. Every day I am meeting new people and getting closer to them, the event program will polish my career to become a good event organizer. My life goal is to become a well-known event organizer for senior citizens.

I have worked for the National Center of Design & Product Development set up by the Ministry of Textiles, Govt of India) as a Designer for 3 years and also had 6 months of training in the same organization. I am adapted to working on multiple tasks simultaneously. These tasks included designing, architectural visualization, product designing, and drawing, and branding(Like logo Designing ). During this period, I actively worked on graphic designing and Product Development projects moreover have done drafting of reports about craft documentation on several Indian crafts.

I have done interactive media in my postgraduation and now pursuing Event management. Learning & exploring new things in this field. Being a tech guy that's very exciting for me  and doing my first charity event.

My name is Cheryl. I am a dedicated mother, goal-oriented student, and passionate community leader. I have a 3-year Business Administration Degree in Accounting from Algonquin College and am currently a student in the Event Management Graduate Program. My children are what motivates and drives me to always learning and becoming a better person. I am very involved in my community and do my best to look out for all my neighbors. I initiated engagement within my community 3 years ago, by organizing a community tenant’s circle, so that our community is able to come together. Through the tenant’s circle, I have organized multiple events with the number of attendees ranging from 60 – 200 people. I was also able to build and start a community garden project with the help of my landlord Ottawa Community Housing. Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have been unable to host any larger community events. However, I organized a reverse trick-or-treating initiative and am currently organizing a holiday hamper program for the tenants within my neighborhood. I am really excited to be a student in this program and am thrilled to be able to be a part of this event for such a deserving charity. I am confident that the skills I am learning now will help me find a career with an organization that I can be truly passionate about.

 Oluwabusayo Felica Alabi began her professional career after receiving a bachelor’s degree in history and international relations from Babcock University Nigeria. She further went on to pursue a career in clothing design after receiving her certificate degree, she leaped faith and started her own company McQuin couture in 2018. 

Planning events has been more than just a hobby for her. She started volunteering for charity events as far back as 2016 in college and ever since has been involved in different charity events. She is now a full-time student in the event management program at Algonquin College and after she graduates she intends to start work as an event planner and working her way up to leaping faith in starting our own event management company. She is a lover of books and spends quality time with family and friends, studying or designing for our next big fashion line. 

Currently, I have a plan and organize a charity event too with a charity organization and when our team was planning this event I was super excited to select the theme and programming. I have never done any beer event but planning this event was fun and I am sure this event will go successfully