Colleen Lanki
Colleen Lanki, a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre Studies program at the University of British Columbia, is one of 100 doctoral students in the United States and Canada selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was sponsored by Chapter AQ, North Vancouver.
Colleen is a native of Vancouver, an active professional theatre artist and the Artistic and Managing Director of TomoeArts. She holds an MFA in theatre directing from the University of Hawaii, and a BFA in performance from York University. At UBC she has been the recipient of the SSHRC Joseph Bombardier scholarship and a fellow of the UBC Public Scholars Initiative, among many other honours.
The P.E.O. Scholar Awards were established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women of the United States and Canada who are pursuing a doctoral-level degree at an accredited college or university. Scholar Awards recipients are a select group of women chosen for their high level of academic achievement and their potential for having a positive impact on society.
The P.E.O. Sisterhood, founded January 21, 1869, at Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is a philanthropic educational organization dedicated to supporting higher education for women. There are approximately 6,000 local chapters in the United States and Canada with nearly a quarter of a million active members.
Colleen’s Profile: https://theatrefilm.ubc.ca/profile/colleen-lanki/
P.E.O. SCHOLAR AWARD: https://www.peointernational.org/about-peo-scholar-awards
