Newfoundland and Labrador

Melanie sitting in a wheelchair outside.

“It Really Is the Job That I Dreamed Of,” Melanie’s Career in Academia Thrives With the Help of Distance Computer Comfort

March 12, 2026

About five years ago, while working as a contract instructor at a university in Ontario, Melanie took part in our Distance Computer Comfort program. Today, her career in academia is thriving — she’s an assistant professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland — and she attributes much of her success to the digital skills she learned in our program, reducing the amount of time it takes her to do computer tasks.