The career path of Florence Larocque, a bachelor of international studies graduate from the Université de Montréal, is as varied as it is singular. This particularly gifted student has accumulated prizes, honourable mentions and scholarships including, as early as the end of her high school years, the Governor-General’s Academic Bronze Medal. During her collegiate studies, she was chosen to co-represent Québec at Leading the Future, an international congress of international baccalaureate students held in Toronto. At once curious, motivated, polyvalent and forever torn between the needs of her community and world emergencies, she quite literally devotes her time to organizations located both here and abroad. In Québec, she lends her support to the Université de Montréal’s Community and Humanitarian Action Services and the Rivers Foundation. Abroad, she gives of her time to Cáritas Argentina in Buenos Aires and a day camp for destitute children in Haiti. In a small fishing village in northern Chile, she heightened awareness of environmental issues among children and set up an ecotourism project. Equality and justice are an integral part of all her activities, both here and abroad.