Dr. Samia Khan
Faculty | UBC Vancouver Dr. Samia Khan is an Associate Professor in the UBC Faculty of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Her equity, diversity and inclusion research includes studies on gender and race in STEM education. As a former Associate Dean of Research, she has overseen equity initiatives, especially among early, mid-career and senior […]
Maistoo’awaastaan (Crow Flag)
Student | UBC Vancouver AKA: Rodney Little Mustache a citizen of the Piikani, Niitsitapi First Nation. An Undergrad with only 5 months of lectures until he graduates from the University of British Columbia within the Faculty of Arts: “Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice”, Program, with Major being Anthropology (to find out where we were), […]
Dr. Margo Tamez
Faculty | UBC Okanagan Margo Tamez (PhD – Washington State University, American Studies, specialization in lower Rio Grande river Indigenous women’s history), is Nde’ Dene of Kónitsąąíígokíyaa, and enrolled with the Lipan Apache Band, Texas. She is an associate professor in the Indigenous Studies program at UBC, Okanagan campus. Additionally, Margo holds a Master’s of […]
Zamina Mithani
Student | UBC Vancouver Zamina Mithani (she/her) is a recent graduate of the Bioethics program at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and is pursuing her Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of British Columbia. She completed her undergraduate degree at UBC where she received a Wesbrook Scholarship (2019) and served as the president of Thaqalayn […]
Stephanie Awotwi-Pratt
Student | UBC Okanagan Stephanie Awotwi-Pratt is a graduate student at the UBC Okanagan campus. She is a student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program under the theme Power, Conflict & Ideas. She is two undergraduate degrees, a BSc in Microbiology and English, and a BA in Gender and Women’s Studies at UBC. Stephanie is very […]
Rabaab Khehra
Student | UBC Vancouver Rabaab Khehra is a fourth year International Relations student at UBC Vancouver. Rabaab is a Punjabi first generation immigrant who came here at the age of eight. She has lived in Surrey since moving here. Rabaab has been volunteering within Surrey in different capacities since she was thirteen years old to […]
Oluwaseun Ajaja
Student | UBC Vancouver Oluwaseun (pronounced as HOR-lu-wa-CHER-un) is a graduate student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. He is a foreign-trained lawyer, deliberative democrat, and public policy analyst with over a decade experience in intergovernmental affairs, unconventional negotiations tactics, social justice, human rights, and security issues. For the past seven years, he […]
Jason Remedios
Student | UBC Okanagan As a social work student too often, we speak about the “system” an invisible construct referred to as the cause of many disparities for racialized individuals. Educational institutions are often the system in itself and while institutions speak to change, it rarely occurs. This is a real opportunity to make systemic […]
Binta Sesay
Student | UBC Okanagan Binta Sesay is a 3rd year International Relations Student at UBC Okanagan. She works at the Equity and Inclusion Office as an Inclusion Action Plan assistant. She also sits on the UBC Black Caucus executive as the undergraduate representative and is a past VP external of the African Caribbean Student Club.
Dr. Dana Solomon
Staff | UBC Vancouver Dr. Solomon is an academic, artist, and entrepreneur. Her career focuses on understanding, opposing, and eliminating racism, prejudice, and bigotry, working towards equity and inclusion. Dr. Solomon created the theory, practice, and evaluated the efficacy of Ideologically Challenging Entertainment (ICE) – an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge exchange (Kx) described in her […]