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UC graduate Iriza Stessy will always remember the day she arrived in Canada from Kenya in 2022. Eager to make her place in a new country, she wasn’t sure where to begin. A class in microeconomics changed her life, and she soon found herself on the path to a promising career in banking and finance. Today, Stessy will graduate with a major in economics and two minors in mathematics and African studies. “Perhaps my story will help somebody else who is new to Canada and feeling lost. I hope it encourages them to know that they, too, can make it.”