Canva hands its UK student ambassador keys to Oxford, LSE and UCL creatives

First Gen C cohort spans 16 UK universities, with Canva targeting 100 Canvassadors and pushing deeper into AI-led campus design

Canva's first UK Gen C cohort draws student ambassadors from 16 universities, with open slots still on the lineup as the program scales toward 100 Canvassadors. Photo Credit: Image: Canva

Canva has named the first UK cohort of its Gen C student ambassador program, drawing from 16 universities including the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Political Science, UCL, the University of Warwick, Oxford Brookes University, the University of Birmingham, the University of Liverpool, and the University of Huddersfield.

The move deepens Canva's campus footprint at a time when student use of Canva AI is accelerating across coursework, pitch decks, and personal branding.

Gen C recruits UK higher and further education students to create tutorials, run workshops, moderate community spaces, and hype Canva events. Ambassadors get Canva Pro free, Canva Print support for branded materials, community funds for training sessions, and access to the Canvassadors Discord and a UK-only Gen C group.

Built around content, not classrooms

The role is unpaid but flexible, typically a few hours a month. Applicants are pitched as community builders, educators, creators, and would-be organizers rather than formal course reps, and Canva is openly inviting Gen C-ers to propose their own formats, from on-campus workshops to social challenges.

The first cohort reflects that blend. Eva Saade, studying at Oxford Brookes University, builds social content, presentations, and brand mockups. Meredith Pong, an MBA student at the University of Oxford, uses Canva for entrepreneurship work including pitch decks and hero products. Argha Saha, an Astrophysics undergraduate at UCL, has built his EdTech platform Sciencetadium, which he says reaches more than 40,000 students, using Canva for pitch decks, thumbnails, and brand kits.

Other Canvassadors include Victoria Lacerda at Warwick Business School, Arpita Parihar at Alliance Manchester Business School, Vidhyasree Manoj Kumar at the University of Birmingham, Samantha Ruderman at ESCP Business School, Rosalía Piña Vélez at the London School of Economics, and Isabelle Thomas at the University of Oxford, with the cohort also including students from King's College London, Queen Mary University of London, Anglia Ruskin University, the University of the Arts London, the University of Essex, and Abertay University.

Canva wants more than England

Announcing the cohort on LinkedIn, Gonzalo Rosado Morgan, who leads community growth at Canva, wrote, "Meet Canva's very first cohort of Gen C Student Ambassadors in the UK We're so excited to introduce this cohort representing (now) 16 universities across all the country."

He added, "This is just the beginning. We're growing the Gen C programme to 100 Canvassadors, and we're especially keen to hear more from students in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland."