Dave Fenton is the Assistant Director of External Relations with the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). He leads a team of relationship managers that support Management’s accredited co-operative education program and supports the team running the curricular work-integrated learning (WIL) program through an innovation center named The BRIDGE. Through the team’s efforts, Management delivers roughly 3,000 WIL experiences in the classroom across 38 courses a year, and supports 40 local entrepreneurs in the New Venture Program.  The team has partnered with the African Impact Initiative (AII) in delivering the African Impact Challenge (AIC) since its launch in 2020, providing access to capacity building, mentorship, funding and other supports to over 5,000 entrepreneurs across Sub-Saharan Africa. Dave sits on the Executive Committee for the AII which has been recognized by the United Nations as one of the top youth led social impact and sustainability initiaitives.  Dave has been published in Cooperative Education and Work-Integrated Learning Canada’s (CEWIL Canada) e-book “The Practice of Co-op and Work-Integrated Learning in the Canadian Context”, presented publications at the WACE International Research Symposium, the World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) World Conference, the CEWIL Research Spotlight, facilitates the Global WIL Modules, and supports the award-winning WACE Global Challenge.  He is one of four practitioners globally who received a Certificate in Global Work-Integrated Learning.  Dave holds a Master of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto and will begin a PhD in Fall 2024.