Ahmed Es­mat, left, born in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to Egyp­tian par­ents, im­mi­grated with his fam­ily to Nova Sco­tia as a child. Jocelyn Paul is in her first year of the clin­i­cal psy­chol­ogy PHD pro­gram at Dal­housie Univer­sity. She is fo­cus­ing on com­bin­ing west­ern psy­cho­log­i­cal ther­a­pies with Mi'kmaq and other Indige­nous tra­di­tional heal­ing prac­tices, and nurs­ing stu­dent Vanessa Maclen­nan no­ticed her classes lacked train­ing for as­sess­ing and di­ag­nos­ing skin con­di­tions on dif­fer­ent skin tones. As she works to­ward grad­u­a­tion, she's also work­ing to change how health care work­ers are taught.