Connect with OCAD U's Graduate Mentors. Each of our programs has a mentor, who you can learn more about in the text below. Find your program and get guidance from a student or recent alumni:
Once you've read about our mentors, head to our booking page to find a date and time that works for you!
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Kathleen Foran-Spragge
Criticism and Curatorial Practice (CCP)
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Jaspreet Sethi
Design for Health (DHEA)
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Nikhil Thomas
Digital Futures (DF Grad)
| Kathleen Foran-Spragge (she/her) is an MFA student in the Criticism and Curatorial Practice program. She is focusing on how patterns of listening and sounding may be transformed to support relationships between humans and with the more-than-human. Kathleen holds a BFA in Art History and Film Studies, with particular attention to gender theory in contemporary art.
| Jaspreet Sethi (she/her) will be a second-year student in Design for Health Program. She has an undergraduate degree in Architecture and Design Studies. She is interested in the intersection of Research, Design and Architectural Practice which is why she is pursuing the OCAD program to explore the potential futures of these industries. She is also multidisciplinary designer with 5 years of experience in a wide variety of cross media design involving illustrations, graphics, furniture, and space.
| Nikhil Thomas (He/Him) was born in India, raised in Muscat, Oman, and is now pursuing his master's in the Digital Futures program at OCAD University. With a background in industrial design, he now focuses on user experience, interaction design, mixed reality, visual design, and research. Thomas has experience as a Teaching Assistant at OCAD University and participated in an art installation event in Toronto. Thomas takes pride in budgeting and can provide a few tips when you move to a new country..
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Lo Bil
Interdisciplinary Masters of Arts, Design, Media (IAMD)
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Titiksha Rout
Inclusive Design (INCD)
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Giuliana Stephanie Treñas
Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI)
| | Lo Bil (she-her or they-them): I work in a variety of durational practices, primarily performance and material relations, and I facilitate embodied relational scores toward opening up conversations between people that go beyond language. I work site specifically and follow intuitive movement patterns toward idea generation for visual and written works, taking photographs of speculative assemblages, hand drawing maps of actions, and making sculptural forms to interact with, out of natural materials, a personal archive, and found ephemera. I am a queer cis-white working-class artist, born in Toronto and honoured to be a part of the 2022 Interdisciplinary MFA cohort at OCADU. | Titiksha Rout (she/her) is an Inclusive design student. She holds a bachelor’s degree in visual communication design from India and now aims to use her knowledge and learnings of inclusive design to upskill her ongoing practice. As a graphic designer, she has worked in experimental ed-tech and animal conservation which is now guiding her practice in sustainability and environmental studies.
She has moved from India with her rescue indie dog and hence has all the hot spots for fun activities and parks to roam around with your fur babies! Feel free to ask her questions about moving, pets and adjusting to life in Canada as an international student.
| Giuliana (she/her) is a first-year Strategic Foresight and Innovation student with a background in Industrial Design. With previous experience in branding, content, and product design, she approaches SFI with a more creative, youthful perspective. Heavily interested in the intersection of technology, ethics, and consumer behaviour, she is pursuing the OCAD program to explore the potential futures of these industries.
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Sal Lovink McKinnell
Interdisciplinary Masters of Arts, Design, Media (IAMD)
Sal Lovink McKinnell (They/She) is a white queer settler artist currently practicing Tkaronto (Toronto). Sal’s work is textile-based and strongly relies on research of material, colour, emotion and engages with a sense of play. Their practice is focused on creating work that explores the sensorial experience of touch.
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Head back to our Booking page to find a meeting that works best for you.Please don't book multiple appointments with the same person on the same day. We welcome follow-up appointments, but please schedule these after your initial appointment. If you need to reschedule, please reach out to us at gradadmissions@ocadu.ca. We can't wait to chat with you!
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