Suze Youance
Suze Youance | |
|---|---|
| Senator for Lauzon, Quebec | |
| Assumed office September 25, 2024 | |
| Nominated by | Justin Trudeau |
| Appointed by | Mary Simon |
| Preceded by | Dennis Dawson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Haiti |
| Political party | non-affiliated |
| Profession | civil engineer |
Suze Youance is a Canadian civil engineer, lecturer, researcher, and broadcaster. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada on September 25, 2024. She was nominated by the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments and appointed by Governor General of Canada Mary Simon on the recommendation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Youance was born in Haiti and immigrated to Canada in 2006 after spending more than a decade working on Canadian aid projects in Port-au-Prince. Based in Montreal, she has since 2008 been a lecturer and researcher at the École de technologie supérieure (ETS), a public research university affiliated with the Université du Québec and that specializes in engineering.[1] At the time of her appointment to the Senate she was also chair of the board of directors of the Bureau de la communauté haïtienne (Haitian Community Office) in Montreal. Until 2003, Youance hosted two programs on sustainable development and engineering on Savoir Média, an educational television channel in Quebec.[2][3]
As of 2024, she was project officer at the Montréal-based engineering firm FNX-INNOV.[1]
She is also a member of the board of directors of the Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal and a member of the board of directors of Mains utiles which provides services to Haitian women in Montreal.[2]
In 2006, Youance was awarded the Casimir Gzowski Gold Medal from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering for her work on the effect of earthquakes on hospital buildings.[4][2] She is also a recipient of the Mathieu Da Costa Award from the Black Coalition of Quebec.[2]
She earned her bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Faculty of Sciences at the State University of Haiti (UEH). She moved to Canada in 2006 to pursue her master's degree at École de Technologie Supérieure and also holds a PhD in construction engineering from ETS.[4][1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Suze Youance". Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister's Office. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Quebec engineer Suze Youance named to Canadian Senate". Montreal Gazette. Canadian Press. September 26, 2024. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
- ^ "Quebec engineer Suze Youance appointed to Canadian Senate". CBC News. September 25, 2024. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
- ^ a b "Suze Youance receives Sir Casimir Gzowski medal". Ici Haiti. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- Living people
- Canadian senators from Quebec
- Independent Canadian senators
- Women members of the Senate of Canada
- First Nations women in politics
- 21st-century Canadian women politicians
- 21st-century members of the Senate of Canada
- Black Canadian broadcasters
- Haitian emigrants to Canada
- Canadian people of Haitian descent
- Naturalized citizens of Canada
- Haitian Quebecers
- French people of Haitian descent
- Black Canadian women
- 21st-century Canadian women engineers
- Haitian engineers
- École de technologie supérieure
- Université du Québec alumni
- Academic staff of the Université du Québec
- State University of Haiti alumni