Grad Profile: A political awakening abroad
Meaghan De Adder, Arts & Social Sciences
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Meaghan De Adder graduates this spring with a Combined Honours in Political Science and International Development Studies (IDS) 鈥� a dual degree she didn鈥檛 expect to pursue when she first began university.
An interest in worldly affairs drew her to IDS, but she couldn鈥檛 fight the desire to study politics, too 鈥� something that was sparked at a young age. Meaghan鈥檚 father, Michael De Adder, is an award-winning political cartoonist, and though she didn鈥檛 often talk politics with him, she recalls growing up with the news always on and her dad鈥檚 cartoons lying around.
As a kid, she didn鈥檛 always understand the political commentary or the jokes in her dad鈥檚 drawings, but she鈥檇 recognize symbols or depictions of people that were talked about in the news.听
鈥淚 can鈥檛 deny that he鈥檚 probably the reason I started getting interested in politics,鈥� she says. 鈥淚f I didn鈥檛 grow up surrounded by it, I might not have been as keen on doing it as a major.鈥澨� Story continues听Grad profile: A political awakening abroad - Dal News - 麻豆社