We Are LCC

In this episode, we sit down with Mark Salkeld to reflect on his inaugural year as Head of School at Lower Canada College. Drawing on 30 years of experience as an educator in both the United Kingdom and Canada, Mark shares how his transition from Director to Head of School in June 2025 shifted his perspective on the LCC community. He discusses the "lessons learned" during his first year, the speci...

In this episode, we dive into the LCC student-athlete advantage . At LCC, participation in athletics is more than just a game—it is a powerful, real-world extension of the classroom. Through sports, our students learn invaluable lessons about resilience, teamwork, and leadership that shape them into well-rounded individuals ready for success in all aspects of life. To explore what gives our studen...

Chris is an LCC alum who works with organizations and communities to make decisions that actually match how people work, what systems demand, and the realities they serve. Over the past decade, they worked across agencies and consultant networks in the nonprofit and social impact space, often stepping in where strong intentions were undermined by unclear processes, conflicting priorities, and unre...

April '25, Pre-U '26, a student at LCC with a strong passion for science, spent the summer of 2025 putting her research skills to the test as an intern at the Kenauk Institute. In this episode of the  We Are LCC  podcast, she shares insights from her fieldwork, shedding light on the practical scientific research opportunities available to students. April hopes her experience encoura...

Patrick Dussault is an award-winning comedy writer, actor, and producer, whose credits include Just for Laughs, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Beaverton, The MMVAs and The Canadian Screen Awards. He has written jokes, sketches, and monologues for comics and celebrities including Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen, Chevy Chase, Norm MacDonald, Sir Patrick Stewart, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Jimmy Carr, Carri...

Eric Macramalla is a partner at Gowling WLG and a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Group. His practice focuses on trademark litigation and prosecution, as well as a variety of Internet-related legal issues, including social media and domain name disputes. Through his trademark litigation and prosecution practice, Eric helps his clients manage their domestic and global trademark portfolio...

Christopher Shannon joined LCC in 2005. Since then he has overseen the implementation of three strategic plans, the school’s most successful fund-raising initiatives and the construction of several state-of-the art learning facilities. Under his leadership, LCC has also developed a clear vision for campus and program development with an emphasis on program excellence, innovation and sust...

Kiho Hirabayashi is a Grade 11 student at LCC and the founder of Eizy English — a free online English tutoring program for students across Japan. Eizy English welcomes learners of all ages, from elementary students to seniors, and aims to make English education accessible to everyone, especially in rural areas where native English speakers are less common.  Recently, Kiho organized a book dri...

Dr. Mickey Moroz '09 graduated from McGill University Medical School in 2016 and completed his family medicine residency in 2018. He then pursued a fellowship training in Sport and Exercise Medicine and a Master's degree in Healthcare Education at Ottawa University in 2019 and 2021, respectively. He currently works as a family physician in Montreal and as a sports medicine physician at McGill Univ...

Olivia Masella, '16, Pre-U '17 is a third year PhD student at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC. Her research is focused on developing a novel low-cost radiotherapy device to increase access in low-resource settings such as low- and middle-income countries and rural regions. She holds a BSc in physics from the University of Waterloo, where she researched a vascular spheroid growth model (...

Tegan Webster holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) from New York University. Since 2006, she has dedicated her career to supporting women impacted by domestic violence. Tegan began her journey at Auberge Shalom, initially serving as a counsellor at their emergency shelter for three years, where she provided critical support to women in crisis. She then transitioned to their external counselling off...

Hugh Verrier is the Chairman of White & Case LLP, a global law firm with 39 offices in 26 countries. With White & Case for 34 years, Hugh has been Chairman since 2007 and directs the Firm’s strategy and operations around the world. A New York-qualified lawyer, Hugh spent most of his career with White & Case overseas in Indonesia, Turkey and Russia, where his practice was focused on the...

Derek's journey into the field of performance wellbeing and mindfulness has been a blend of passion, curiosity, necessity, and serendipity—a journey shaped over a lifetime. It began in his early days as a national-level hurdler striving to qualify for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.  Eight years after missing the Olympics as an athlete, he entered the Sydney 2000 Games as a performance manager,...

Sarah Bullock holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University, specializing in psychology and elementary education. Over the past four years, she has worked as the cycle 2 math teacher at LCC, where she places a focus in her classroom on inclusive education practices, centers, and project-based learning. Angela Rashotte has over twenty years of experience in el...

René Balcer is a Canadian-American television writer, director, producer and showrunner, as well as a photographer and documentary film-maker. Born in Montréal in 1954, he studied photography and visual representation at Concordia University. Inspired by such artists as Edward Hopper and Ed Ruscha and photographers Robert Capa, Leonard Freed, and Liliane De Cock, Balcer began his photography work...

With a distinguished career spanning over two decades in educational leadership, Tammy Groff has consistently demonstrated a commitment to fostering academic excellence and holistic student development. Currently serving as the Director of Middle School at Lower Canada College in Montréal, Tammy oversees a comprehensive range of responsibilities including mentoring middle school teachers in goal-s...

Olivia obtained her BSc in Nutritional Science from McGill University in 2018, then went on to complete her MSc (‘20) and recently, her PhD (‘24) from McGill in Animal Science. Her graduate research involved use of national dietary data from the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey - Nutrition to assess the role of animal and plant protein foods in Canadian sustainable diets. Her latest proj...

Christopher Shannon  joined LCC in 2005. Since then he has overseen the implementation of three strategic plans, the school’s most successful fundraising initiatives and the construction of several state-of-the art learning facilities. Under his leadership, LCC has also developed a clear vision for campus and program development with an emphasis on program excellence, innovation and...

Dr. Robert Ravinsky '02 is a dual-fellowship trained orthopaedic spine surgeon with clinical interests in adult deformity and adult degenerative conditions, including complex revisions of the cervical and thoracolumbar spine. He is additionally interested in the use of novel technologies and the implementation of minimally invasive surgical techniques. A native of Montreal, Quebec, Dr. Ravinsky at...

Krista McNally '02 is the founder and retreat facilitator at Heartventures. She is a curator of experiences ranging from international retreats, enneagram personality workshops, hot stone restorative yoga classes and creating memorable vacation stays as an Airbnb Superhost in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She helps individuals and teams find meaningful connection and leadership development through self-aw...

Jackson Labell '18, Pre-U '19 has delved into the worlds of entrepreneurship, finance, and tech. After his time at LCC, he founded a non-profit organization, became the youngest hire at his Morgan Stanley Wealth Management branch, and successfully managed a tutoring service while studying computer science at New York University. As a tutor, he noticed that students often wait weeks for grades and...

Geoff Molson '87, Pre-U '88 has been a general partner of CH Group Limited Partnership since December 2009, and the President and, since 2011, Chief Executive Officer of CH Group Limited Partnership, owner of the Montreal Canadiens, Evenko, Équipe Spectra, Just for Laughs and the Bell Centre. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Molson Coors Brewing Company and serves as an ambassador f...

Emmanuel Mavridakis ‘18 is currently majoring in political science with a minor in law at Concordia University with plans to attend law school. He has been interning at DLA Piper Law firm since 2016. After surviving a serious accident in 2013 and sustaining a life-threatening spinal cord injury and brain trauma, Emmanuel became a motivational speaker. He has worked with many organizations such as...

Roger Hilton is a global affairs and defence analyst based in Central Europe. Since 2019, he has worked at GLOBSEC in Bratislava, Slovakia, where he is currently a Media Presenter and Defence Fellow. He has worked extensively with both public and private sector stakeholders and managed the NATO 2030: NATO-Private Sector Dialogues with GLOBSEC, where many of the dialogue recommendations were integr...

Constance McGuire is in her seventh year as Director of Academics at LCC and has been an educator long enough to remember when technology in the classroom consisted of a whiteboard, and if you were lucky, your very own overhead projector. She has been part of many schools' journeys from computer labs to one-on-one device programmes and online teaching tools. She is excited to see how AI will...