I often take walks in my neighbourhood, on the beach, on the coast overlooking Washington state. I unfortunately did not have the opportunity during my exchange to physically go to UW; got to be safe from COVID!  But the virtual format of this year’s Corbett Exchange allowed me to connect online with the other students

School/work/sleep/eat at home: Life can get redundant and boring staring at the same 4 walls at home, a necessary step we must all take to #stopthespread. The Corbett Virtual Exchange has been an opportunity to change my surroundings a bit – just in an online format. This year, instead of attending classes at the University

“You only have everything to gain when you surround yourself in a place that lets you critically engage in any way you want to.” I ended ‘Living in Place; an Indigenous Student’s Perspective Abroad’ with that sentence. I wrote the piece in October 2019, wrapping up the experience as an Indigenous person studying at the

Unite UW is a cultural exchange program formed by the university to bring together domestic and international students at UW. But for me, it did so much more than that. It was a life changing experience that allowed me to become friends with some of the most amazing people I have ever met. I am

I had the privilege of studying at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for the 2019 – 2020 academic year. In this post, I hope to share with you, the reader, four essential tips I have learned during my time abroad. While it might have been easier to write about commonly-shared topics, I’ve decided to

For the Corbett Exchange Program, as with most exchange programs, COVID-19 brought forth new and  unforeseen complications. From the beginning of this program, my primary goal was to focus on the cross-border connections and making a “second home” in Seattle. While our classes may have been cut short, I still feel that I have achieved

Each year, the Center welcomes newly awarded Corbett Exchange Scholars and sends off our departing students with a reception that brings them together with our patrons, Gary and Consuelo Corbett, representatives from the Consulate General of Canada in Seattle, and staff and administrators from the Canadian Studies Center and the Henry M. Jackson School of

This spring quarter, former Corbett Scholar Sierra Red Bow co-developed and co-taught JSIS A 280: Indigenous Encounters alongside Professor Jonathan Warren (international studies). Sierra’s experience as a UW exchange student to UBC in the fall of 2019 influenced her contributions to the course, and she shares more below: “The course I’m currently teaching with professor Jonathan

It is pretty amazing to think back and realize that it has already been almost five years since I was a Corbett Fellow, but I am incredibly proud to see how far the Corbett Exchange has come and I am so happy that students on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are still getting to

Seattle will forever hold an incredibly special place in my heart. The city and the people were key players in my personal development and ultimately, my career path. Where do I begin? For me, it was a place to grow both academically and personally, while creating more cross-border understanding through talking and meeting different people.