Steven Thompson Holm was born and raised in Kamloops, and graduated from the South Kamloops Secondary School French Immersion Program with an Ambassador’s Scholarship to TRU. A Business Administration student, majoring in Economics and Finance with Honours, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Economics and was the co-president of the Economics Students’ Association on campus. Also a  member of the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), Steven was the program manager for Thompson Rivers Consulting, which helps small businesses and non-profit organizations. He was also part of the SIFE presentation team for the Go Green and Entrepreneurship Categories at the National ACE competition. The semester he spent studying abroad, at the Universite Paul Cezanne, in Aix-en-Provence, France is one of the highlight of this student life. With a UREAP research grant, Steven studied the effect of funding sources on undergraduate student outcomes, and presented “BC Student Loan Policy in the Global Context” at TRU’s Undergraduate Research Conference. He has been involved in federal politics at the local level, and twice won bursaries to attend Fraser Institute public policy seminars. A regular on the Dean’s List, he is an institutional candidate for the SSHRC Bombardier Masters Scholarship. Steven will start law school in September at OSgoode Hall in Toronto. and will pursue his Chartered Financial Analyst designation level one in December.