CREW Network Foundation Scholarship: Calgary Recipients

Wednesday, Aug 26, 2020

Congratulations to Calgary recipients of the Crew Network Foundation Scholarship. We are so proud!

The CREW Network Foundation scholarship program supports future female leaders as they pursue university-level education that will lead to careers in commercial real estate.  Two of these scholarships were awarded to Calgary CREW members, Emma Hopkins and Aleithia de Guzman.

Emma Hopkins

Hopkins is a senior at University of Calgary obtaining a Bachelor of Commerce under the Westman Centre for Real Estate Studies. She will be the second female to graduate from this program, which launched at University of Calgary three years ago.

Since May 2019, Hopkins has been working as a Brokerage Coordinator at JLL alongside her full course load. She aspires to be a broker and notes that the role of the traditional broker is going to change drastically in the time she is building her career. Hopkins is focused on constantly learning about property management, capital markets, workplace strategy, real estate law and technology advancements.

Aleithia de Guzman

Guzman is attending her first year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is interested in studying technological disruption in real estate, specifically how emerging technologies can be leveraged to build sustainable cities that help tackle climate change. Guzman’s passion for sustainability began in college, when she led a team of 100 students to build a net-zero house for a competition held by the U.S. Department of Energy.

She has seven years of experience working in real estate PE for OMERS / Oxford Properties in London, leading and completing over $8 billion of transactions across Europe, Asia Pacific, and North America. She co-founded the 50/50 Dinner in London with a group of women to increase awareness of the gender split in real estate and has helped build social housing in the Philippines, where she was born. Guzman was named one of Bisnow’s ‘Top 49 Women’ who will shape the future of UK real estate.

Please join us in congratulating our CREW members!