The founder and executive director of War Child Canada will receive an honorary degree when The University of Western Ontario hosts its 295th Convocation this June.
Samantha Nutt will receive her honorary degree at the Western convocation ceremony scheduled for Wednesday, June 16 at 10 a.m.
Samantha Nutt
World-renowned perception psychologist Richard Gregory was scheduled to receive an honorary degree at that ceremony, but is now unavailable to attend due to personal reasons. Efforts are underway to find another date to honour Gregory.
Nutt is a medical doctor with more than 13 years of experience working in war zones. Committed to peace, human rights and social justice, her ambition has always been to help war-affected women and children. She has worked in some of the world’s most violent flashpoints with War Child Canada, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Iraq, Afghanistan, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Burundi, northern Uganda, Ethiopia and the Thai-Burmese border.
Over the course of her professional career and as the founder and executive director of War Child Canada, Nutt has spearheaded efforts to provide direct humanitarian support and long term programming to war-affected children and their families, and to promote greater awareness in Canada concerning the rights of children everywhere