Divine Reyes (2023/4)
Divine Reyes is a second-generation Filipinx-Canadian. She graduated with a major in Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice and a minor in ACAM. She further pursued her passion for social justice through her undergraduate degree. Her academic career opened up her love for feminism and activism and learned how they intersect within Asian and racialized […]
Maya Wu (2023/4)
Maya is a UBC graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. As a 1.5- generation immigrant, she is all too familiar with the lived realities coming from an astronaut family, being a translator kid, and dealing with intergenerational differences. With her experience of navigating immigration bureaucracy and the Canadian legal system as a […]
Gabby Abando (2023/4)
Gabby is in her final year as an undergraduate at UBC completing her honour’s degree in Sociology and minoring in Psychology. Her research interests lie in urban and community sociology, more specifically the local spatial factors of immigrant experience for the Filipino Canadian community. She is interested in understanding space, social infrastructure and cities and […]
Jennifer Multani (2023/4)
Jennifer is a student activist attending the University of British Columbia and plans to pursue a Bachelor of Social Work with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. She was born in Bad Homburg, Germany but raised in Surrey, British Columbia. She is interested in issues pertaining to identity, substance use, health, and […]
V. Pauahi Souza (2023/4)
Pauahi Souza is a proud Kanaka Maoli from Kailua O’ahu within the occupied Hawaiian Kingdom. She is a 3rd year PhD Student at the Social Justice Institute where her work intersects mental health, politics, and Indigenous resistance. She has worked in the mental health field for 18 years and is an advocate for culturally relevant […]
Gurnoor Powar (2023/4)
Gurnoor Powar is a second-generation Punjabi-Canadian currently in her final year at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and based in Surrey, BC. Her academic pursuits revolve around English literature, complemented by a minor in Asian Canadian Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) for her undergraduate degree. Her research interests encompass the exploration of diasporic identities and […]
emily law (Organizer)
emily is a 5th-year Psychology and English (Language & Literatures) double-major, and Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies minor at the University of British Columbia which is based on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sʔəl̀ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Through her studies, emily seeks to understand the individual in both […]
Olivia Lim (Organizer)
Olivia Lim is a graduate student completing her MA in English Literature at the University of British Columbia. Working at the intersection of critical disability studies and Asian transpacific studies, her thesis explores how understandings of disability and debility impact frameworks of redress in contemporary Asian transpacific literature. Her current and past community projects center […]
Vanessa Lee (Organizer)
Vanessa (she/her) is a fourth-year transnational UBC student living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sʔəl̀ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. She is currently pursuing a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies, focusing on the theme of (Asian) Migration and Postcolonialism. Having migrated from Singapore to Canada to New Zealand and back […]