Faculty of ArtKihan 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 […]
Lindsay Mak (BA, History and English Literature)
Lindsay is a second-generation Canadian-born Chinese, born and raised in Vancouver on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Lindsay completed her BA with a double major in History and English Literature, with an ACAM minor. Over the course of her undergrad and learning diverse stories from marginalized communities, Lindsay […]
Mary Chen (BFA, Creative Writing)
Mary Chen is a writer and artist of colour who lives and creates on unceded Coast Salish territories. Her writing has appeared in multiple Canadian literary magazines and in 2017 was anthologized in Currents: A Ricepaper Anthology. At UBC, she was heavily involved as the Editor-in-Chief of The Garden Statuary, the English department’s undergraduate literary journal, and also […]
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.
Mimi Nguyen (BA, Sociology)
As a daughter of two former refugees, Mimi Nguyen bears witness to the disconnect within her Việt Kiều community. She later pursued an education in Sociology to strengthen her understandings of the social constraints found in diasporic communities. In the middle of her degree, Mimi was fortunate enough to find home in ACAM where she […]
Min Kim (BS, Global Resource Systems)
Min was drawn to the ACAM program because they were seeking community. They finally took their first ACAM course in their fourth year and facilitated a student directed seminar on mental wellbeing of the Asian-Canadian diaspora in their fifth year. The people that they’ve met through ACAM are the brightest, most passionate, creative visionaries. They […]
Moira Henry (BA, English Literature)
Moira Henry is a fifth-generation settler of Japanese and Scottish ancestry living, working, and learning on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ land. Graduating with a major in English Literature and a minor in ACAM, she is interested in storytelling as both a mode of resistance and a means of connection. Throughout her time in the […]
