Azalea Lehndorff is a General Surgery Resident Physician at UBC at A Better World Canada. She possess expertise in fundraising, event management, marketing communications, public speaking, capacity building and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Azalea participated in a capstone 4th year project in my research laboratory and her work ethic, level of engagement and academic potential was in the top 10%. Azalea was always prompt in her communication, clearly committing to lab work dates and times and following through by arriving on time and ready to work. Azalea quickly assimilated and understood new concepts and was soon able to work independently in the laboratory with limited supervision. Azalea showed a keen curiosity regarding the work, asking relevant questions, showing a high level of engagement and attentiveness. Azalea has academic strengths, strong planning and organizational abilities, good communication skills and is a focused and hard working individual with significant potential to excel at her chosen career." and "Azalea Lehndorff is a highly organized professional with a talent for establishing humanitarian events and foundations that can make a difference. I was honored to know Azalea when she organized the launching of “Freedom Run 5000 “, an organization she co founded to raise money to build 100 classrooms to benefit Afghanistan children. Azalea’s management and leadership style was the main key to the success of the event. Azalea strategically posed thoughtful questions to continually search for ways to improve the lives of others. She is both an excellent team player and leader who has led a group of University students to question gender disparities in education and take action. She's is a self starter, a motivator and ‘it can be achieved” kind of person you want to work on a long term basis. Tererai Trent worked directly with Azalea when she was a Deputy Director for Heifer International."