New Grad Advocate - Eyasu Yakob

Eyasu Yakob is a fourth-year nursing student at the University of Alberta and the former president of the Canadian Nursing Students' Association. He contributed to the development of Canada’s Nursing Retention Toolkit as an advisory committee member and served on the boards of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions and the Canadian Nurses Association. Last fall, he led the first-ever national nursing student survey, a CNSA-CFNU initiative aimed at studying student concerns to inform policy and strengthen advocacy efforts.

newgrad@cnsa.ca