Alumni A-Z


Joanne Yuasa (BA, Religion, Literature, and Arts)

Joanne Yuasa is in her fourth year at UBC, majoring in Religion, Literature, and Arts, with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration. She is planning on furthering her education through a professional Masters program in Pastoral Studies in Toronto. She currently serves as an ordained priest of the Jodo Shin school of Buddhism, […]


Julianna Yue 余美鳳

Julianna Yue 余美鳳 (she/her) is a 2nd generation settler of Chinese, Michif and mixed European ancestry, born and raised on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) & səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). She is graduating with a BA in Sociology and First Nations and Indigenous Studies, but has been deeply involved with […]


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 […]


Kaitlyn Lee

Kaitlyn Lee is a second generation Chinese Canadian settler born and raised on the traditional unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her family has roots in Hong Kong and Indonesia. Taking an ACAM minor has enriched her degree in Sociology – connecting her learnings to local and diasporic histories as well as […]


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 […]