Global Ideas Institute  

2011-12 Mentor Profiles

Mark Anderson | Bev Bradley | Nick Buffo | Hormuz Dadabhoy | Kristen Dahl | Andrew Do | Supriya Joshi | Nessa Kenny | Sara Lee | Mimi Liu | Erik MacKinnon | Robert Meynell | Danielle Pacey | Casey Panning | Richard Park | Rufina Park | Emman Rahman | Jashpreet Saini | Lindsey Spencer | Kerry Sun | Sean Verigin

Mimi Liu is a second-year student pursuing a joint specialist in international relations and peace and conflict studies on a Loran scholarship. Mimi has worked as a public policy intern for the Mosaic Institute, a think-and do tank which works with Canada’s ethnocultural communities to promote peace and reduce conflict around the world. She has also been a legal intern in China for International Bridges to Justice, a non-profit that works to strengthen developing countries’ criminal justice systems. She is the founder and director of Vivace, a youth driven, community-based non-profit that seeks to provide holistic music education to empower under-privileged children and their communities. Currently, she is a research assistant for Professor Joseph Wong, exploring demand-side barriers to the adoption of health technologies in middle- and lower-income countries. She is very excited about being part of the Global Ideas Institute.