“Immigrants like Ding Fan (BMgmt ’14), who comes from Tangshan, a city in China’s Hebei province, but now calls Halifax home, was named one of this year’s Maritimes Top 25 immigrants. Passionate about entrepreneurship, community building, and international relations, Fan is a busy woman. When she’s not co-ordinating Innovacorp’s Start-Up Visa Program and helping technology entrepreneurs build a new home in the region, she’s volunteering her time strengthening the Chinese community with organizations like the Chinese Society of Nova Scotia.

‘The Top 25 is important since it means we have a community here in the Maritimes,’ said Fan. ‘It showcases immigrants’ contributions to the whole community.'”

Read the whole story in The Chronicle Herald.