Meet our 2025 Margaret Crickard Scholarship recipients !
The IDS Deoartment is proud to announce it's 2025- 26 Margaret Crickard Scholarship recipients. The Margaret R. Crickard Scholarship in IDS is awarded to a student each year who demonstrates outstanding academic achievement and community engagement / leadership. This year's scholarship was jointly awarded to Amelia Dinh and Darby Haysom. !
Amelia Dinh
Amelia Dinh is a third-year Honours student in International Development Studies with a Management minor at Dalhousie University. On campus, she works with the Office for Equity and Inclusion (OEI) as a Peer Educator, contributing to social justice and community engagement.
Amelia's off-campus involvement includes roles with the YWCA Halifax’s Youth Advisory Council, the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation (ACIC), and the Canadian Conference on Global Health.
She is excited to be awarded with the 2025/26 Margaret R. Crickard Scholarship through the Department of International Development Studies. Her goal is to continue shaping meaningful dialogue in equitable global and local cooperation.
Darby Haysom
Darby is a Sustainability and International Development student at Dalhousie University, set to graduate in Spring 2026. Darby has worked for the past year with an environmental NGO working to improve community climate capacity within 19 communities across Nova Scotia. Her experience has shaped a deep interest in how climate impacts fall unevenly on vulnerable communities, which also informs her honors research on the neocolonial roots of GMO policies in West Africa. After studying abroad in Ghana, Darby became especially interested in the intersections of gender, climate and policy. Darby is motivated to continue supporting community driven, gender responsive approached to sustainable development