Thomas Girard (born 30 December, 1980 in Vancouver, Canada) is a Canadian scholar. Girard was accepted to attend University of Oxford in lectures equivalent to graduate coursework. Girard has received several Emerging Scholar awards, first at the Design Principles and Practices conference in Barcelona, Spain at the prestigious ELISAVA. At Emily Carr University of Art and Design he received his second Emerging Scholar award. Other awards include RBC Emerging Scholar, Royal Bank of Canada Foundation. For 2021, he has been awarded an Emerging Scholar award from the New Directions in the Humanities conference in Madrid, Spain. Contents 1. GRATITUDE 1: PRAISE 2. GRATITUDE 2: ABSTRACTS 3. GRATITUDE 3: LITERARY JOURNAL ESSAYS 4. GRATITUDE 4: TEDX TRANSCRIPTIONS About the Author