Inga Bekbudova - UCU Community Leadership Award winner.

Our first winner of the UCU Community Leadership Award is Inga Bekbudova. This award is in the amount of $1,000 and is given to qualifying candidates of Ukrainian heritage who are enrolled in a field of study such as political science, business, communication, theology, or international studies and who show above average academic skills. The winners must also demonstrate leadership and community involvement.

Inga Bekbudova is a 1st year Performance/Theatre production student at Ryerson University. Inga is very active in the Ukrainian Community in Toronto and has been a key participant in the youth programming on the weekly Kontakt TV show.  She is very artistically talented having participated as a dancer, wardrobe assistant and teaching assistant in the Arkan Dance Company. She has also taught piano at the Ontario Conservatory of music, sang in the Prolisok Youth Ensemble and played with the Baturyn Concert Marching Band. Currently she is a member of the Ukrainian Students’ Club at Ryerson.

We will highlight each of the winners in blog posts over the next few days where you can read a bit about them. In the meantime, you can see lots of photos from the 1st Annual UCU Scholarship Award Gala on our Facebook page. You can read more about the 1st Annual UCU Scholarship Gala here.

Congratulations to all the winners! You are all very talented and deserving of praise! Keep reading the blog for more about this year's scholarship winners. And if you didn't apply this year, why not think about it next year? Visit our Scholarship page on our website for more details. The call for application normally goes out in late December, early January and the deadline is the end of February.