Emi Sasagawa
Staff | UBC Vancouver Emi Sasagawa is a settler, immigrant and queer woman of colour, living and working on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam People. She is currently a Communications Manager at Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and a graduate student in the Creative Writing program. Emi has a background in social […]
Dr. Maryam Nabavi
Staff | UBC Vancouver Dr. Nabavi works with the Equity & Inclusion Office (EIO) in the area of change management as related to institutional systems, strategic engagement and culture change. Her primary interests and strengths are in the design, delivery and evaluation of initiatives that enhance equity, diversity and inclusion as applied to collaborative large-scale […]
Lauren (Ilaanaay) Casey
Staff | UBC Vancouver Lauren comes to the land colonially known as Vancouver from Haida Gwaii, which is the home of her Nuni’s (grandmother) people. Lauren is a registered member of the Skidegate Band, of the Haida Nation. Her family’s crest is the Hummingbird, of the Juus Clan, on her father’s side. She is the […]
Rohene Bouajram
Staff | UBC Vancouver Rohene Bouajram is the Associate Director, Strategic IBPOC Initiatives at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver where she provides strategic leadership and direction on embedding equity and inclusion and advancing anti-racism in policies, initiatives and programming for students. She currently serves as an executive member on the UBC Black Caucus and is an […]
Saher Ahmed
PhD student – Global Studies | Staff | UBC Okanagan Saher Ahmed is a passionate activist, researcher, and educator at UBC. She is a PhD student in Global Studies and Manager at the Global Engagement Office (International Advising and Intercultural Development). She has extensive experience working in international policy, human rights, and migration research. As […]
Dr. Nuno Porto
Faculty | UBC Vancouver Nuno Porto, Curator – Africa and South America at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he taught and was also director of the Museum of Anthropology. He collaborated with the Ministry of Culture of Angola on the renewal project […]
Dr. Minelle Mahtani
Faculty | UBC Vancouver Dr. Mahtani is a scholar and journalist of South-Asian and Iranian Muslim descent. She is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Justice at UBC. She is also the Senior Advisor to the Provost on Racialized Faculty where she supports the recruitment and retention of racialized faculty. She is a former […]
Dr. Ryuko Kubota
Faculty | UBC Vancouver Ryuko Kubota, PhD from the University of Toronto, is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education of UBC Vancouver campus, where she teaches applied linguistics and language teacher education. Her research draws on critical approaches to language education, focusing on antiracism, decolonization, critical […]
Dr. Ninan Abraham
Faculty | UBC Vancouver Dr. Ninan Abraham is Associate Dean, Equity and Diversity in the UBC Faculty of Science and a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Zoology. His research focuses on the regulatory points in immune cell control with specific interest in airway immunity to pathogens and lung cancer. […]
Dr. Donna Kurtz
Faculty | UBC Okanagan Dr. Kurtz is Métis and mixed European ancestry. She works with multi-sector university-Indigenous community Indigenous-led collaborative teams in cultural safety education and research beyond social determinants of health, to foster respectful anti-racist, anti-discriminatory health care education, services and policy. Donna uses decolonizing gender relevant, equity based Indigenous methodologies in health promotion […]