Trisha Dempsey is a graduate student at Dalhousie University studying social anthropology. With plans to pursue her doctorate in medical anthropology, Trisha hopes to someday work within the health policy field and become an advocate for health related human rights especially among marginalized sectors of the population. Trisha has had extensive volunteer experience working alongside marginalized groups. For example, she has volunteered with the Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Agency, Phoenix House group home, and L'arche Cape Breton. In 2007 she spent two months in Costa Rica volunteering in a small farming community as part of an environmental leadership program funded by Canada World Youth and the NS Conservation Corps. On return to Halifax, she volunteered at the Ecology Action Centre where she initiated and designed a project centered on researching and presenting ‘green’ public buildings around the city.

Trisha was the recipient of a 2007 Millennium Scholarship, as well as the 2009 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship. She has won several essay contests including second place in the Dominion Institute’s Great Canadian Questions essay contest. In 2008 the Atlantic Film Cooperative granted her a full scholarship to create a one minute film which was premiered at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival. Currently she is working as the Sustainability Communicator with the Office of Sustainability at Dalhousie University.
 
Now in her third year working with Canada's World, with a great interest in international issues and Canada's role in the world, Trisha is looking forward to further building on the valuable experiences she has accumulated as a Canada's World intern.