Judges

Alexandra Severyn

wears many hats in her career.

Firstly, she has been with the BC Lions football club for the last 17 years as the Dance team manager.

She also runs her own successful staffing agency Voltage Entertainment for the last 20 years.

Her latest venture is her co-purchase of a local business of 27 years here in White rock Spiral dance. A studio which she taught ballet at for 13 years.

Alexandra has years of experience with youth and mentoring young men and women be it her role with the football club or the dance studio.

She looks forward to being a judge once again at the White Rock Youth Ambassadors

Sunpreet Bains

had the honour of being crowned Miss White Rock 2003/2004 and also British Columbia Ambassador 2004/2005. She is also a Top 25 Under 25 Award winner and has been honoured as a YWCA Young Woman of Distinction. Sun completed her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences at SFU and continued on to obtain her Doctorate in Dental Medicine from UBC. She has a passion for working with people and truly enjoys being a dentist. Sun feels that her profound experience with the ambassador programs helped develop her as a woman and instilled confidence and self awareness.

Debbie Ward

is a former flight attendant of 38 years; worked for Elections BC for 2 years and as a constituency assistant to 2 provincial MLAs. She helped run the WRYA from 2003 to 2019 and remains on the board. She has also been a board member of the White Rock Museum and Archives going on 9 years.

Mother of two grown children and Oma to two grandchildren Debbie is happily retired, but she continues to be available to volunteer while living with her one husband and two cats in White Rock BC.

Donna Beaudry

has been involved with WRYA program for over 45 years.
She was there when the program evolved from the ‘Miss White Rock Pageant ‘ to it current form, the WRYA program. A decision that modernized the program to be more inclusive and to emphasize
Community values like volunteering. Working with young people over the years has been a source of passion and joy for Donna. She especially loves learning about what alumni ambassadors have achieved in their lives after the program.
Donna was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 for her years of volunteer service with the WRYA. Donna is the mother of Kelsey and Bryn and has one year old grandaughter Aubrey.
Operating West Beach Pilates on Marine Drive keeps Donna busy these days.

Michele Partridge

is an award-winning business owner, public speaker, acting coach and arts and culture advocate. She has coached hundreds of actors over her 25 years of teaching and has also helped many business professionals with their communication skills. The award-winning acting school, The Drama Class is one of 3 acting schools she has founded and/or co-founded over the years. She has been on several boards including Women in Film and Video Vancouver and currently the White Rock Business Improvement Association. She currently spends her days coaching confidence classes and putting actors on tape at her White Rock based acting studio plus volunteering for projects such as 50 Women of Options and advocating for the arts and culture community. Michele has recently been nominated by the South Surrey/White Rock Chamber of Commerce as Business Leader of the Year - Self-Owned for 2020.