Valedictory Address

Kate Palmer spent the first year of her undergraduate degree learning from her childhood bedroom in Rothesay, NB, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Four years later, the isolation of the 2020/2021 academic year is a distant but formative memory.

As someone who finds purpose and fulfillment in helping others and making the world a healthier place, adjusting to UNB’s Fredericton campus in her second year was both briefly challenging and highly rewarding. To “find her place,” Palmer immersed herself in student life by becoming an orientation leader, joining the UNB Student Union as Women’s Councillor and later founding and chairing the UNB Menstrual Health Society to reduce period poverty by providing access to free menstrual and wellness products.

Kate achieved all this and more while actively working to find balance in her daily life.

Kate will receive a bachelor of science in psychology, minor in biology, with a specialization in neuroscience. This August, she will begin medical school at Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick. 

Kate Palmer will deliver her valedictory address in Fredericton on Wednesday, May 15 at 10 a.m.