Sydney Whiting

Biography

Sydney Whiting holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science from the University of Lethbridge. With broad interests in public policy, she has published on right-wing populism and studied youth employment, rural migration, and violence prevention. Sydney was a delegate to the G7 youth advisory council and the United Nations CSW66; worked for the Collective Centre, a student organization committed to gender and sexual health advocacy; and co-founded the former Climate Hub of Southern Alberta. She volunteered for the Young Diplomats of Canada to support youth access to global governance spaces, and now serves as the Manager of Partnerships for the Oxford Climate Alumni Network. Building on her undergraduate thesis on the discursive functionality of sustainable development, she is excited to begin the MSc in Comparative Social Policy to better understand welfare and sustainability in times of crisis.