Congratulations to all winners in the 2021 Emerge Media Awards!
Thank you to everyone who entered the 2021 EMAs, and congratulations! You can view all submissions here.
Many thanks also to the judges – industry professionals as well as faculty at colleges and universities across Canada – who lent their time and expertise to evaluating all submissions.
First Place
Stephanie Bai and Julie Shi, University of Toronto: Spine: The Varsity’s Winter 2020 Edition
Second Place
Kedice Jones, Navreen Aulakh, Fiona Li-Duong, Zabdel Salandanan and Zoya Rahim, University of Guelph-Humber: Emerge Web Magazine
First Place
Vishnuga Rajalingam, University of Guelph-Humber: “The Help”
Second Place
Malik Assaf, Fanshawe College: “Magista”
First Place
Taranpreet Ahluwalia, Sean-Michael Guikpa, Brendan Nickels, Faye Huynh and Thomas Keroglidis, Humber College: “Less than proud: Historic racism in Canada”
Second Place
Serena Renner, University of British Columbia: “British Columbians sing in solidarity”
First Place
Trina Stewart, Fanshawe College: “Hands of time”
Second Place
Jane Diokpo, University of British Columbia: “Turn that frown upside down”
First Place
Karisa Simon, University of Guelph-Humber: “Afrofuturism: The Tool of Reclamation of the African Diaspora”
Second Place
Sara Mizannojehdehi, Carleton University: “Norouz under quarantine”
First Place
Andrea Wong, Blaise Kemna, Kyra Bird and Hailey Payne, Mount Royal University: “CHOICES: A cerebral palsy story”
Second Place
Dina Dong, University of Toronto: “Through the looking glass”
First Place
Spencer Colby, Carleton University: “Photographing Ottawa’s Protests in 2020: A Collection of Work”
Second Place
Alex Bowman, Loyalist College: “Plastic”
First Place
Kaela Johnson, Alena Blanes, Julia Boncoddo, Celia Commisso,Cassandra Constantinou, Danya Elsayed,
Andreya Klobucar, Mahleej Raja and Caryssa Razionale,
University of Guelph-Humber, “Emerge: Unknown”
Second Place
Luxshana Sivaneswaran and Gustavo Lopes, Humber College: “Madawaska Adventures Outdoor Gear and Clothing Internal Communications Plan”
First Place
Alex “Cosmo” Lutz, Aniket Sawant and Renat Absalyamov, Fanshawe College: “Unbeatable”
Second Place
Lucy Harnish and Feleshia Chandler, University of King’s College: “The mad scientist of Hubbards”
First Place
Jacqueline Ohm, MacEwan University: “Give me a break”
Sarah Ford, McGill University: “Witnessing wildlife”
Second Place
Alexandre Hinton, McGill University: “The #takejamesmcgilldown movement”
First Place
Reanna Julien and Pascale Malenfant, Carleton University: “Opinion: Until Canada has stats on police brutality, anecdotes of the Black experience won’t suffice”
Ibnul Chowdhury, University of Toronto: “Editorial: Lacking centralization, tuition transparency — U of T’s 2020 COVID-19 response falls short”
Second Place
Martha Taylor, Lydia Angarso and Shantel Watson, University of Toronto: “Op-ed: Dear Trinity College, do better — address anti-Black racism now”
First Place
Solaya Huang, Mount Royal University: “Turning the page: How a Calgary-based book club is contributing to the conversation on inclusivity”
Second Place
Alex Nguyen, University of British Columbia: “Taking root: How Canada’s first student recovery community is growing at UBC”
First Place
Zoe Yunker, University of British Columbia: “East Hastings neighbourhood losesbeloved thrift store as development ramps up”
Second Place
Serena Renner, University of British Columbia: “Local TV show The Magicians goes green behind the scenes”