U of T Alumni Association Annual Meeting

UTAA Annual Meeting & Keynote Presentation

Saturday, June 20, 2026
Convocation Hall
An Alumni Reunion Flagship event. Free!
All alumni are welcome.

10:30 –11:10 a.m. EDT
Brief business meeting, including the announcement of the 2026 recipient of the Carl Mitchell Community Impact Award

11:10 a.m.– 12 p.m. EDT
"Covering Canada for the New York Times. The inside scoop."
With Prof. Randy Boyagoda and New York Times’ Canada bureau chief Matina Stevis-Gridneff

At this time of geopolitical uncertainty, the world increasingly looks to Canada, as do global media outlets. The Canada bureau chief for the New York Times has seen this shift up close. Join Matina Stevis-Gridneff in conversation with novelist and U of T civil discourse expert Randy Boyagoda. Get the NYT perspective on covering Canada for the world in the midst of developing national issues – Canadian sovereignty, trade relations, immigration and international diplomacy.

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Randy Boyagoda is a novelist and English professor at the University of Toronto, where he serves as the university’s advisor on civil discourse, the first such position in Canada. He writes regularly for publications, including the Atlantic, Financial Times of London, Globe and Mail, New York Times and The Walrus. His new book, Lords of Serendipity, a global campus novel, will be published in Canada and around the world this September.

Matina Stevis-Gridneff joined the New York Times in 2019 as Brussels bureau chief, and became Canada bureau chief in 2024. Before the Times, she covered Europe and East Africa for the Wall Street Journal. As a career correspondent, she has reported on financial crises, refugee displacement, conflict and culture in more than 30 countries. As part of a New York Times team, Stevis-Gridneff was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for an investigation into the spread of Covid-19. In 2019, she was part of the Wall Street Journal team that won a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing award for coverage of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-Max crash. She won the 2016 One World Media Refugee Reporting Award, presented by the International Committee of the Red Cross, for her work at the Journal on the refugee exodus from Eritrea.

Voting at the UTAA Annual Meeting

Voting is voluntary and optional, but it's also your way of participating in the Annual Meeting. If you wish to vote, you can either register and attend the meeting or appoint a proxy (such as the UTAA President or someone else of your choosing) to attend and vote on your behalf.

To appoint a proxy, please download the PDF proxy form to complete the required information, and submit it to utaa.secretariat@utoronto.ca by June 18, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. EDT.

The PDF must be signed, either by e-signature (using software like Adobe Reader) or by scanning a printed and signed PDF.

Download proxy form

The following materials will be available ahead of the meeting. Please check this page a few days before the Annual Meeting.

• 2026 UTAA Annual Meeting Agenda
• 2025 UTAA Annual Meeting Draft Minutes
• 2026-2027 Proposed Slate of Directors
• 2025-2026 UTAA Audited Financial Statements
• 2025-2026 UTAA President’s Report

Important Resources:

• UTAA By-Law No.2025-1
• UTAA Rules of Order
• UTAA Proxy Form

What is the UTAA?

The UTAA is an organization that represents U of T alumni at home and abroad, helps alumni participate in the life of U of T and advances the university’s mission.

Who is allowed to participate?

If you’re a U of T alum, you may attend the Annual Meeting and participate by voting. You may either vote when you attend or appoint a proxy to vote on your behalf. All 720,000 U of T graduates around the world are automatically members of the UTAA and invited to attend all UTAA events.

Further questions?

Please contact us at utaa.secretariat@utoronto.ca if you have any questions.