'My main goal is to make Indigenous students feel heard at school,' says new trustee Mya Jensen, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student at St. Mary's College
Mya Jensen, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student at St. Mary’s College, is the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board’s first Indigenous student trustee.
“I’m looking forward to being able to ensure Indigenous students will be seen and heard at St. Mary’s College and have the opportunity to be on the Student Senate. Proving and challenging myself is one of the things I’m most looking forward to,” Jensen said in a brief address to the board. Jensen said she was approached by a group of SMC teachers and asked to compose a speech outlining her interest in becoming an Indigenous trustee. “My main goal is to make Indigenous students feel heard at school. I have some Indigenous friends and some of them don’t feel they’re heard as much as other kids are so I really want to make sure Indigenous culture is heard and more included at school. It hasn’t been a big problem. I just think there wasn’t enough representation,” Jensen said.
A huge part of being a student trustee is being supportive of other students as they often face academic challenges at school.
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