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Ginnie Masterson
Standing up for youth
She was also awarded a $10,000 Scholarship from the Canadian Millennium Excellence Awards, which recognize and foster active citizenship, creative leadership, and academic excellence in upper-year post-secondary students.
Accomplished is a good descriptive term for Ginnie Masterson. On her own at the age of 16, she worked her way from administrative jobs, to self employment, to partner in a Halifax based publishing company. And then at the tender age of 33, she decided it was time to go back to school. First stop was her GED, followed by careful research into her post-secondary options. When she talked to people in the human services field about where to get an education, the resounding answer was NSCC. Ginnie enrolled in the Human Services Program with an Interdisciplinary Concentration.
"I reached a point where I realized that I wanted to do something a little more meaningful. Counselling and working with youth was a dream of mine." In order to ensure she was on the right path, Ginnie began volunteering with youth - something she continued to do right through her studies at NSCC. "It really paid off because I found out that I actually had a taste for this kind of work and got satisfaction and enjoyment out of it."
Two years later, Ginnie graduated as Valedictorian and the Governor General's Medal recipient for achieving the highest grade average at the Truro campus.
She was also awarded a $10,000 Scholarship from the Canadian Millennium Excellence Awards, which recognize and foster active citizenship, creative leadership, and academic excellence in upper-year post-secondary students.
Currently working as a key counsellor at Phoenix House, a residential facility in Halifax for at-risk or homeless youth, Ginnie raves about her experience at NSCC. "I loved my classes, I had awesome instructors, and the Human Services program was really excellent at preparing me for the workforce."
Ginnie is a big fan of the hands-on, training based approach to education that NSCC excels at and her reimmersion in school has made her realize how much of a passion she has for learning. In fact, Ginnie's next stops are a Bachelor of Arts and Community Studies Degree through Cape Breton University, followed by a Masters in Adult Education at St. F.X. with the ultimate goal of returning to NSCC to teach in the Human Services Program.
NSCC will be lucky to have her back.
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