Kacey Ng (BA, Sociology, Honours)
Kacey Ng (伍啟詩) is a Hong Kong-Chinese-Canadian Settler on traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tseil-Waututh) peoples. She traces her ancestral home to being from 开平 (HoiPing) and 台山 (ToiSan), although much of her extended family resides in 香港 (Hong Kong). Much of her work is informed by […]
Kailey Tam (BA, English Language and Literatures, Honours)
Kailey Tam is a Han Chinese settler born and raised on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. They are graduating with a BA in Honours English Literature and Language with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. During their time at UBC, they’ve worked as a Communications […]
Kathy Thai (BA, English Languages and Literature)
Kathy Thai is graduating with a B.A. in English Literature and minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. Throughout her degree, Kathy was able to explore the ways in which languages, histories, and personal identities influence and propel creative efforts such as storytelling, film, and design. She is grateful to have been a part […]
Katie Fung (BA, Sociology)
Katie was born and raised in Hong Kong. Growing up, she was passionate about dancing and was trained to be a professional ballerina. The decision to migrate to Canada was made by her mother, who believed Katie and her brother would benefit from the education system here. Moving at age eleven and caught at the […]
Katie Hoang (BMS, Media Studies)
Katie is a Han Chinese student and settler of Cantonese, Taiwanese and Vietnamese descent, born in the United States on the land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area and raised in Shanghai, Taiwan, Toronto and Vancouver. She is currently studying and working on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish peoples. She is […]
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 […]
Kihan Yoon-Henderson (BA, Human Geography)
I am a Human Geography major with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration studies. I grew up in an intergenerational household as part of the Korean Canadian community in Vancouver, on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. My time in both programs has allowed me […]
Kimberley Wong (BA, Geography)
Kimberley Wong is a queer Cantonese diasporic woman whose work mirrors the intersections of her identity, as a fifth generation settler on unceded Coast Salish lands. She feels re-energized when walking through the avenues of Chinatown, in the footsteps of her ancestors and elders. Kimberley focused her studies on understanding the lives and migration patterns […]
Kristy Lin (BA, Asian Area Studies)
Kristy Lin is a second generation Chinese Canadian born and raised from Vancouver, graduating from UBC with a major in Asian Area Studies and a minor in Asian Canadian Asian Migration Studies (ACAM). Growing up, she’s always been interested and curious about many different aspects of life and so through both Asian Studies and ACAM she was […]
Leilan Wong (BA, Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice)
Leilan Wong is a mixed-race UBC student of Cantonese, Irish and English descent, living, working and learning on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tseil-Waututh), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. Leilan majored in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration. Through her studies at UBC, Leilan dedicates her studies to critiquing the systems of power and […]