Two Alberta students awarded Prairie Equity Scholarships

ALBERTA – Two Alberta post-secondary students have been selected to receive Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Prairie Equity Scholarships.

Jessie Weisner is a second-year student majoring in Broadcast News at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary. Weisner is an activist for women’s rights, a pursuit that led her to El Salvador when she was 16, where she says she was confronted with the discrimination and abuse women face there, without the resources to escape.

She has also worked to increase awareness of childhood cancer, after losing a brother to the illness.

Chad Booth of Sherwood Park is in his first year of studies at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology’s Radio and TV program, aspiring to a career in radio. Booth says he wants those with disabilities to realize their potential, and to be judged for what they say and do.