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!
    Graduate Student Mentor Jordan BeleyGraduate Student Mentor Rayhaan YehiyaGraduate Student Mentor Taylor Patterson

    Jordan Beley

    Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories (CADN) & Criticism and Curatorial Practice (CCP)

    Rayhaan Yehiya

    Design for Health (DHEA)

    Taylor Patterson

    Digital Futures (DF Grad)

    Jordan Beley is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, curator and writer. Her practice is rooted in performance, archival research and intergenerational dialogue. She is currently a Criticism & Curatorial Practice (CCP) MFA student at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada (Graduating 2024), with a focus on documentary film and multimedia documentation of underground queer performance. 
     

    Rayhaan Yehiya is a first year Design for Health Masters student. Their undergrad was in health science, health promotion and health communication. They also have done some digital marketing as well! Rayhaan moved from Vancouver to Toronto for this program so feel free to ask any questions regarding moving! Their interests include movies/tv shows, hockey and being a huge foodie!

    Taylor Patterson will be a second year student in the Digital Futures Program. Taylor has an undergrad in Marketing and they are a makeup artist. Taylor was born and raised in the Cayman Islands and they currently work with the Graduate studies and the research department at OCAD U.

    Graduate Student Mentor Lo BilGraduate Student Mentor Flavia GasteluGraduate Student Mentor Priyal Mehta

    Lo Bil

    Interdisciplinary Masters of Arts, Design, Media (IAMD)

    Flavia Gastelú

    Inclusive Design (INCD)

    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.Flavia Gastelú (she/her) is an inclusive product and service designer. She holds a degree in Industrial Design from Peru and tshe is currently pursuing a MDes in Inclusive Design at OCAD University. With five years of experience in service and product design, she has successfully utilized various approaches to develop research, wireframing, interface design, and 2D/3D prototypes, particularly in the health and financial sectors.
     
    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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