Rebecca Gysbers She/Her/Hers
Hello! My name is Rebecca Gysbers and I’m in my 4th year at McMaster, pursuing a degree in Civil Engineering with an Interdisciplinary Minor in Sustainability. I am a proud Hamiltonian (born and raised), and I feel so honoured to be part of the Semester in Residence with CityLAB this year. This learning experience has really made me come to appreciate Hamilton (both the city and its people), its struggles and triumphs, and its amazingly gritty personality. The reasons that I chose my current program are the same reasons that I wanted to do a semester at CityLAB: I'm fascinated by the way that a city’s design and communities impact the day-to-day lives of its residents. I want to help Hamilton become a safer, healthier place to live, and doing a project at CityLAB seems like one of the best places to start. In my spare time I enjoy curling up to read a good book with my cat, watching musicals, going for long hikes in the woods, and swimming (before the pandemic I was on the McMaster Varsity Women’s Water Polo Team). This semester has been one of my favourite university experiences so far, and I am so happy to get to spend my hours on Microsoft Teams with my incredible fellow students and CityLAB professors.