2025 Graduates Reflect on Time at GRSJ
As our 2025 graduates prepared to say farewell to UBC, we asked them to take a moment to reflect on their time with GRSJ – what stood out for them, what they’ll miss and what’s next now that they’ve completed their degree. Here’s what some of them had to say! Marianne El-Mikati, MA What Stood […]
Alumni Pieta Rupia (GRSJ Minor, ’16) on her home town, Dar es Salaam
Pieta Rupia (GRSJ MInor, 2016) is a Business Development Manager who grew up in Dar es Salaam (commonly known as Dar). After obtaining her UBC degree, she moved back to her hometown, where she has been living full time since 2017.
Alumni Interview: Dr. Amel Aldehaib on the Situation in Sudan
Alumni, Dr. Amel Aldehaib on the Situation in Sudan and how a massive international humanitarian emergency assistance is urgently needed.
Alumni Receives MSHRBC Funds for Knowledge Translation Project
Michael Smith Health Research BC (MSHRBC) has announced the recipients of the 2023 Convening & Collaborating (C2) and Reach competitions to create pathways from research evidence to impact and help ensure that cutting-edge health research can directly improve the health of British Columbians and BC’s health system. GRSJ Alumni A.J. Lowik is a co-lead on […]
Alumni Story: Jen Sung
A public speaker and program coordinator of the Out in Schools program, the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) graduate Jen Sung leads a team into high schools throughout British Columbia, using film to open dialogue about LGBTQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer) issues and other forms of discrimination. “Being able to […]
Alumni Story: Paul Sutton
Paul Sutton is a leading lobbyist and advocate who has a strong track record in bringing people together to increase access to HIV and hepatitis C treatment. He’s a graduate of the program that also brings important voices together – the interdisciplinary Critical Studies in Sexuality (CSIS) Program. He points to the CSIS program as […]
Alumni Story: Sara Malkin
GRSJ alumna Sara Malkin credits the Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Program (GRSJ) with giving her a critical foundation for her work as an Associate Lawyer. She is still in contact with a number of graduates from the Institute, and the graduates have gone on to fascinating, challenging careers for which GRSJ helped to prepare them. One […]
Alumni Story: Shoko Kitano
At a North Shore Women’s Centre Girls Empowerment Camp, Shoko Kitano overheard a girl say that because of the camp, she was able to say ‘no’ to a boy she was interested in who was pressuring her to do things she didn’t want to do sexually and otherwise. She could communicate about why she wasn’t comfortable […]
Alumni Story: Lau Mehes
Lau Mehes’ work is so related to her Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) studies, that she says she feels that her work now as a QMUNITY youth worker is an extension of the GRSJ major. “How hasn’t it been useful? GRSJ kind of helped me understand how I wanted to live in the […]