ACAM Alumni

Christina Lee (BA, Geography)

Christina Lee (BA, Geography)

Christina is a third-generation member of the Cantonese (開平/台山) diaspora, born and raised on the unceded, occupied, and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples. A lifelong learner, Christina has found her academic home in Human Geography and Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, combining her passions for community and urban spaces, specifically those that […]

Tyler Mark (BA, Geography)

Tyler Mark (BA, Geography)

Tyler Tadao Taiming Mark is graduating with a B.A. in Geography and a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration studies. Born and raised in Vancouver, Tyler continues to learn what it means to be a Chinese-Japanese-Canadian diaspora on these unceded Coast Salish territories but is thankful to the ACAM community for providing an interdisciplinary space for critical […]

Shaina Somers (BA, Canadian Studies)

Shaina Somers (BA, Canadian Studies)

After many years as a UBC undergraduate, Shaina will be graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian Studies and a double minor in Sociology and Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. Her studies and interests have taken her around Canada, Europe, Asia and East Africa to work, travel, study and live. As a woman of […]

Michael Nguyen (BA, History)

Michael Nguyen (BA, History)

Michael, graduating with a Major in History, has utilized ACAM as a way to encourage Asian Diasporic youth to understand, collect, and preserve their family history in order to forge relationships and identities between two or more home countries.

Angela He (BA, International Relations)

Angela He (BA, International Relations)

Angela is a 5th year International Relations major and ACAM minor. She was first introduced to the ACAM program when she took Dr. Henry Yu’s History 492 class in her 3rd year, and since then, her academic career followed a new path. She then joined Dr. Yu for his Go Global course in Hong Kong, Singapore, and […]

Sloane Geddes (BA, Asian Area Studies)

Sloane Geddes (BA, Asian Area Studies)

Sloane is graduating with a major in Asian Area Studies and a minor in Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies. She will be staying at UBC to do her Master’s degree in Asian Studies.

Christy Fong (BA, English, Honours)

Christy Fong (BA, English, Honours)

Christy is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature Honours, supplemented by a minor in Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies. Her thesis research focuses on the 1968-1979 Barbecue Meats Protests of Vancouver’s Chinatown, specifically on the intersection of racialised legislation, community activism, and oral histories. Through ACAM, Christy was given the opportunity to […]

Allen Fan (BA, Sociology)

Allen Fan (BA, Sociology)

Allen is a sociology major who was born in Taipei and immigrated to Vancouver at the age of 2. Growing up in Vancouver, he has had the opportunity to witness and experience the wonders of migration in the place he calls home. With the knowledge and abilities he has received and developed through his time […]

Nicole So (BA, English)

Nicole So (BA, English)

Nicole So is expected to graduate in May of 2015 from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration studies. Curious to understand Hong Kong (where she was born) and Vancouver (where she was raised) in a comparative and academic context, […]

Carolyn Nakagawa (BA, English, Honours)

Carolyn Nakagawa (BA, English, Honours)

Carolyn Nakagawa is graduating with a degree in Honours English literature and a minor in Asian Canadian Asian Migration Studies. In addition to her work with the Aoki Legacy Fund researching the life and legacy of musician and community figure Harry Aoki, Carolyn co-coordinated a student directed seminar on the writings of poet and visual […]