RN Aaliyah Hoo Kim-Baker finds purpose in advocating for less privileged communities. Aaliyah Hoo Kim-Baker knew from an early age that she wanted to work in the community. At 16, she visited Ethiopia, and it was there she saw first-hand the impact nurses had providing HIV education in the community. It was also there she met a Toronto nurse who told her that nurses are advocates. “She assured me that I would be able to do all of that, while serving communities directly,” the RN recalls. In 2013, Hoo Kim-Baker started the nursing program at Ryerson University. She would soon learn it wasn’t exactly as she’d envisioned it. “I remember feeling super outcasted,” she says about not relating t...