Gurnoor Powar is a second-generation Punjabi-Canadian currently enrolled in the fourth year of her bachelor program, majoring in English with a minor in ACAM. Since entering the ACAM program she has found a passion for Asian-Canadian arts and initiatives, focusing on storytelling as a mode of recovery and retrieval with an interest in the displacement of heritage. Having been both an editor and contributor of Tributaries: UBC ACAM student journal, she hopes to both continue her work with ACAM and also find community endeavours that promote BIPOC voices like hers.
Program: Bachelor of Arts, English Literature (Minor: Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies)