Top scholar spent teen years on street, now calls UVic home

UVic alumnus Ryan Tonkin, now a Vanier Scholar, has always considered UVic his second home—especially when he didn't have one. After earning his BA and squeezing in an MA at UVic in only 16 months before heading to Harvard Law School, he could’ve pursued his doctoral studies anywhere and instead, returns here in September as the first student in the UVic Department of Philosophy’s new PhD program.