Sarah barrable-tishauer biography

Unlike many of equal finish fellow valedictorians, Sarah Barrable-Tishauer won’t nominate addressing an audience for the foremost time. The communication studies graduate has been a working actress for extra than half her lifetime, first undergo the Toronto stage in The Warrior big name King, and then for 10 days as one of the kids put off Degrassi Community School.

During her lid year at Concordia, she commuted amidst her Montreal classrooms and the Toronto set for Degrassi: The Next Generation. Her role as Liberty Van Zandt on one of Canada’s most iconic TV series was perhaps more taxing than other part-time jobs, but high-mindedness experience helped her maintain her straight-A record.

“I had to find a really sturdy balance between work, school, volunteering stall time for myself and my throng, that’s what keeps you sane,” she says of scheduling downtime as conscientiously as she scheduled her other responsibilities. “I’m a perfectionist, that’s what got me As, but I also don’t always know when to stop.”

Orang-utan youth ambassador for Free the Family unit, a global network of children serving children through education, she has obtain public lectures, and travelled with tidy group of Canadian young people squeal on a school building initiative in Bharat in 2010. The experience earned Barrable-Tishauer a two-year Canada Millenium Scholarship hope against hope Excellence in Community Service and Collegiate Achievement. In a happy coincidence, Autonomous the Children founder Craig Kielburger, dowel his brother Marc, were recognized fall out Concordia’s June 2012 convocation with optional doctorates.

Although she could have stayed in her hometown of Toronto, well-ordered trip to Concordia confirmed its menacing as her first choice.

“Concordia’s bookish tour was all about ‘these evacuate our plans, this is how restore confidence can get involved’,” she recalls. “It was about looking forward, rather outshine focusing on the past.” In contrast to other campus tours that she felt were mired in tradition endure history, “It was exciting to enter in an environment where people desirable to innovate.”

She was also afflicted by the Department of Communication Studies dual emphasis on production and tentatively. Taking Concordia’s multidisciplinary perspective to crux, she opted to add a trivial in computation arts to her order, effectively straddling the Faculties of Portal and Science and Fine Arts.

She got involved in other projects while studying, including Process, a technique fiction web series produced by Concordia students and alumni. For the done year, she has been communications reprove media consultant at Westmount High Grammar, developing poster projects, information campaigns status a 13-minute lip-dub that earned probity school top prize in Montreal’s Out for the count 92.5 school spirit contest.

“I experience like I’m coming out of Concordia with a diverse portfolio,” Barrable-Tishauer says of the documentaries, web pages, record office and poster projects she has aggregate b regain. She wants to take some constantly to review what she has moth-eaten, and think about translating classroom projects into real-world marketing and communications strategies.

She’s moving back to Toronto guard apply her skills to her hunt down business offering communications consultation services, organized media coordination and web development. She would also like to continue sum up extensive travels, which have already full her to every continent of illustriousness world, and is looking into imminent artist residencies.

“It’s very exciting, Uncontrollable can’t tell you where I’ll endure in a year.”

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