Mathematics Professor, Mohawk College

Kathryn Crooks graduated with honours from Mohawk College with a diploma in Business in 2012 and a diploma in Business Administration and Management in 2013. In addition, Kathryn graduated from the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica with an honours Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry in 1995.

During her studies at Mohawk, she won the Mohawk College silver medal and the Bill Stoddart Scholarship in 2013. She served as a peer mentor and peer tutor, tutoring business students in accounting, business mathematics, marketing, economics, and computer applications for business. Kathryn was also a project assistant for the BLIP project, a program that analyzed the college’s e-learning platform services and created a database about faculty usage.

Returning to Mohawk in 2018, she is now a math professor and the current co-chair of the Business/Business Administration program advisory committee. She is also a program analystan on the Infrastructure Ontario portfolio at commercial real estate firm CBRE Canada. Kathryn was named “An Absolutely Fabulous Woman Over 40” in 2016, and “A Woman Who Rocks” in 2019 for her community work in Canada and Jamaica.

Kathryn founded a non-profit in 2014, Charity Chicks Hamilton that provides direct care for the homeless in the Hamilton downtown core. She has also served on the Board of Directors of City Kidz, and as Co-Chair of the Hamilton Black History Committee for the 21st & 22nd annual Reverend John C. Holland Awards, Hamilton’s premier event for celebrating Black Excellence in the city.