How Laurier's ISOW program helped this grad pursue her dream

Zeyneb Ozdemir is graduating from Wilfrid Laurier University this week with a biology degree but her trip to the convocation stage involved a few more hurdles than some of her classmates faced. Ozdemir and her family lived in Brazil. Her father had moved there from Turkey. The family came to Canada to get away from the Turkish government, which was working to extradite her father from Brazil after a failed coup in that country in 2016. She said if it wasn't for Laurier's International Students O