Grad Profile: A political awakening abroad
Meaghan De Adder, Arts & Social Sciences
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Meaghan De Adder graduates this spring with a Combined Honours in Political Science and International Development Studies (IDS) — a dual degree she didn’t expect to pursue when she first began university.
An interest in worldly affairs drew her to IDS, but she couldn’t fight the desire to study politics, too — something that was sparked at a young age. Meaghan’s father, Michael De Adder, is an award-winning political cartoonist, and though she didn’t often talk politics with him, she recalls growing up with the news always on and her dad’s cartoons lying around.
As a kid, she didn’t always understand the political commentary or the jokes in her dad’s drawings, but she’d recognize symbols or depictions of people that were talked about in the news.Ěý
“I can’t deny that he’s probably the reason I started getting interested in politics,” she says. “If I didn’t grow up surrounded by it, I might not have been as keen on doing it as a major.”Ěý Story continuesĚýGrad profile: A political awakening abroad - Dal News - ±«Óătv University