The conversation around the challenges immigrants face is all-too common, but Gervan Fearon, PhD, CPA, CGA, ICD.D, president of George Brown College in Toronto, takes a new angle to the narrative. “My biggest challenges have become my greatest strengths,” says Fearon who was born in England to Jamaican parents.
“At age six, we moved back to Jamaica and then, at nine, to Canada. So, in under a decade, I had already lived in three different countries. This meant for much of my youth, I felt that I did not fit in anywhere.”
Feeling like an outsider was his challenge to overcome, but as Fearon grew in age and confidence, he realized that he was all he had to be.
“I came to understand that I had a Canadian way of seeing the world, combined with Jamaican cultural roots and an English sense of formality. I was all these backgrounds, and it was okay to simply be myself,” he says.
Read the full article about Dr. Fearon on the Canadian Immigrant website.
