Canadian Water Network (CWN) is excited to welcome Alicia Wang for a four month co-op term as a communications and marketing student. She is joining us from the University of Waterloo, where she is in her third year of the honours arts and business program. 

Over the next four months, Alicia will be supporting CWN with an audience analysis project to help inform our future communications planning and needs. She will be conducting research, administering surveys, and interviewing staff and network members. This information will then be summarized and presented to identify the key needs and interests of the network. Alicia’s work on this project will help to move CWN forward in a positive and efficient way.

Alicia explained that “most of her professional experience has been in the world of journalism, meaning lots of interviewing, researching, information analyzing, and of course, writing and editing.” She is excited to apply these skills at CWN and is eager to “play a role in turning feedback into actual change.” She also expressed that she is “looking forward to gaining experience in the non-profit sector and working towards something that benefits the entire community.”

As a rhetoric, media and professional communication major, Alicia is passionate about using language to create meaningful and lasting impact in the community. She gets to do this through her role as a journalist for the University of Waterloo’s official student publication, Imprint. Through this position she captures important details of student matters and communicates them as impactful stories to share with the university and broader community. Her journalistic contributions even helped earn the team a national student journalism award! 

On a more personal note, when Alicia isn’t studying or working she is likely playing an instrument or cycling the city. She studied classical piano for eight years and has impressively taught herself both guitar and ukulele. She grew up eating Chinese cuisine (particularly Shanghainese), making her comfort food highlights stir fried rice cakes, scallion oil noodles, and steamed hairy crab.

Please join us in welcoming Alicia!