Faculty of ArtCarolyn (Cari) Chiu (BA, Asian Area Studies)
Cari is a second-generation Chinese Canadian born and raised on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She is in the B+MM Dual Degree program and just completed a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Asian Area Studies and minoring in ACAM, and will be continuing her studies at the UBC […]
emily law (BA, English Language & Literatures + Psychology)
emily law 羅穎賢 is a 2nd-generation Chinese-Canadian settler who grew up on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. She is graduating with a BA in Psychology and English Language and Literatures, and a minor in Asian Canadian & Asian Migration studies. She is also the Dialogues Coordinator & […]
Gurnoor Kaur Gwen Powar (BA, English Literature)
Gurnoor Powar is a second-generation Panjabi-Canadian woman born and raised on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Semiahmoo, Katzie and Kwantlen First Nation. She is graduating with a BA in English literature and a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. Gurnoor hopes to continue her academic and creative journey in an exploration […]
Isa You (BFA, Creative Writing)
Isa is a second-generation Chinese Canadian settler living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She is graduating with a BFA in Creative Writing and Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. While at UBC she fell in love with storytelling through photography, film and radio, and has applied […]
James Ross (BA, Asian Language and Culture)
James is a sixth generation Canadian of Scottish ancestry raised on the ancestral land of the Songhees and Esquimalt nations. He is graduating with a BA in Korean Culture and Language and a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration studies. These programs have guided him in understanding the importance Asian Canadian histories of the […]
Kaylan Mah (BA, English Literature)
Kaylan Mah is graduating with a BA in English Literature and a minor in History. She discovered the ACAM program in her second year, and is grateful for the safe, inclusive community it provided for her to dig deeper into the different ways that “Asian Canadianness” is lived out, and what it means for her […]
Vanessa Lee (BA, Interdisciplinary Studies)
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 graduating with 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 […]
Victoria So (BA, History)
Victoria So 蘇美馨 (she/her) is a 2nd generation settler of Chinese ancestry on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) & səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) land. In melding her studies in History with ACAM, she has learned how we can contest colonial narratives and reveal the agency, diversity, and resistance within community histories, […]
