Mei Lin Nicolae-Chu will represent the EMSB-Marymount Academy International at the 70th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN-CSW-70)!

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Montreal, February 9, 2026- The administration of the EMSB-Marymount Academy International is proud to announce that Mei Lin NICOLAE-CHU, a Secondary 4 student, participant in the Voices of Olympia Canada School Competition (VOOC), has been selected to represent her school on the international stage.

On March 10, 2026, Mei Lin will virtually present her teams’ project at the VOOC round table hosted by the NGO CSW70 Parallel Events Forum that links civil society to the Seventieth Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN-CSW- 70), held at the UN Headquarter in New York

Under the guidance of Ms. Dimitri Thomakos, the team – composed of Ranim Sleiman, Sanya Bucktawar, Mei Lin Nicolae-Chu, Quynh Anh Nguyen, and Xinyi Su – worked on the theme of artificial intelligence in service of Cancer care. Their project: " Hope, Strength and Algorithms: The Future of Equitable Breast Cancer Screening " proposes AI solutions for a more equitable access to early cancer prevention.

"Empowering girls’ voice today is investing in the leadership that will transform tomorrow’s world " stated Ms. Anne Manière Depachtère, Board Member of VOOC and Co-founder of the Les Petites Manières tutoring network. "By contributing to the NGO CSW70, these participants are doing more than learning: they are influencing, proposing, and building solutions for more equal, more inclusive, and responsible artificial intelligence and digital governance."

ABOUT VOICES OF OLYMPIA CANADA / LES OLYMPES DE LA PAROLE CANADA

Founded in 2017, Voices of Olympia Canada (VOOC) is a registered charity with the CRA, entirely volunteer-run, whose mission is to promote Girls’leadership through global citizenship focused on project-based learning. VOOC hosts an annual adjudicated school competition where Canadian secondary school students reflect on global issues hindering the empowerment of girls and women through the lens of social justice and human rights. Since its launch, VOOC has mobilized more than 300 students across Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, have delivered 39 presentations at the NGO CSW Parallel Events Forum, developing 55 projects in partnership with Indigenous and non-Indigenous community organizations in both urban and rural environments, reaching over 75,000 people, weaving a powerful network of change agents across Canada.

VOOC is a proud Generation Equality " Commitment Maker," » and holds membership in several distinguished international bodies, including the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO), the NGO CSW/NY, and the Afro Youth Summit.

Media contact: Dre. Saôde Savary, Ph.D. (Public Health)

VOOC Founder and Executive Director

Website: https://www.olympesdelaparolecanada.ca/

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