Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice

Alumni Receives MSHRBC Funds for Knowledge Translation Project

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 […]

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Indigenous Scholars Leading Innovative Research

Indigenous Scholars Leading Innovative Research

Scholars Leading Innovative Research- GRSJ

Congratulations! 2023 Sustainability Leadership Award Winner – Kaitlin Wu

Congratulations! 2023 Sustainability Leadership Award Winner – Kaitlin Wu

Kaitlin spoke to a GRSJ interviewer about her life and educational background, with inspiring message to GRSJ students

Student Stories: Khaldah Salih (MA)

Student Stories: Khaldah Salih (MA)

Meet Khaldah Salih, one of the new MA students of the 2016-2017 cohort at The Social Justice Institute. This interview took place on the traditional, ancestral, unseeded and occupied territory of the Musqueam peoples. Ine: “Hi Khaldah, thanks so much for taking the time to meet me here today to talk about some of your […]

Student Stories: Emmanuelle Andrews (MA)

Student Stories: Emmanuelle Andrews (MA)

Meet Emmanuelle Andrews, one of the new MA students of the 2016-2017 cohort at The Social Justice Institute. This interview took place on the traditional, ancestral, unseeded and occupied territory of the Musqueam peoples. Ine: “Emmanuelle, thank you for joining me today. Could you tell me a little more about yourself? Why did you decide […]

Alumni Story: Jen Sung

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: Sara Malkin

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

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

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 […]