Reuben Garang

Reuben Garang, is a Canadian citizen of South Sudanese origin who immigrated to Canada in 2004. He joined UWinnipeg in 2006, pursued a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies after obtaining his grade 12 equivalency, and graduated in October of 2011. Garang is especially proud of his background as one of the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan, the children and young adults displaced from home by the civil war in Sudan from 1983-2005. Garang participated in the war as a child soldier and lived as a refugee for much of his young life.