Adeline Chartol
Adeline Chartol (she/her) is a 4th year student studying International Relations. She grew up in the Washington D.C. area and moved to the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples in 2021. Before starting her position with ORICE, she worked with Squamish Nation and the Indigenous Path...Read more
Aida Sanjush
Aida Sanjush
Student Researcher
Aida Sanjush is an avid learner with a strong sense of community, driven by a profound dedication to humanitarian causes, particularly advocating for women’s education and promoting the well-being of refugees. After completing a transformative year-round exchange program at Sciences ...Read more
Aishwarya Ramachandran
Aishwarya Ramachandran (she/her) is a PhD student in the School of Kinesiology at UBC. She spends a great deal of her time reading and writing about the history of medicine and the health sciences, as well as finding new ways to develop and test interdisciplinary pedagogical resources to enhance col...Read more
Carolina (Carol) Basso
Carolina Basso (she/her) is the Program Coordinator of the Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE) at UBC. She has considerable experience with project coordination and volunteer management having worked with local communities and non-profit organizations in poverty reducti...Read more
Cindy Custodio
Cindy Custodio (she/her) is a Filipino graduate student at the UBC iSchool. She holds undergraduate degrees in Creative Writing from the Ateneo de Manila University and in Motion Pictures & Television from the Academy of Art University. She is a filmmaker, and writer, and was a lead for a creati...Read more
Emma Villalobos
Emma Villalobos (she/her) is a fourth-year student majoring in International Relations and minoring in Law and Society. She is passionate about social justice and human rights. Therefore, she is excited to join the Human Rights Training Project as a program assistant. In the past, Emma has...Read more
Fariha Kabir
Fariha Kabir (she/her) is a first-year master's student at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Born and raised in Bangladesh, she is passionate about the intersectionality between health and gender, and how digital financial services can be instrumentalized to empower vulnerable comm...Read more
Gaylean Davies
Gaylean Davies (she/her) is the Advisor of the Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE) at UBC. She has worked in the non-profit and academic spheres for over a decade. Gaylean has worked for various BC-based organizations in cancer care, recognizing excellence in arts and b...Read more
Krystal Go
Krystal Go (they/she) is in their final year pursuing a Major in Political Science at UBC Vancouver. They were first introduced to ORICE through the UBC HRC engagementship on Academic Freedom in Canadian Higher Education in 2021, and then worked as the Communications Assistant, and is currently now ...Read more
Kseniia Voronkova
Kseniia is a third-year psychology student pursuing a minor in biology at UBC Vancouver. Born and raised in Slavic culture, she has always been passionate about preserving her native identity, as well as exploring other cultures. Kseniia is interested in global mental health, equity in accessing med...Read more
Max Bogpene
Max Bogpene is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science. He is currently the Graduate Academic Assistant for the Human Rights Training Program. He studies International Relations with a particular focus on norm contestation, international law, and how states and/or regional groupings o...Read more
Mira Sehgal
Mira (she/her) is a second-year Psychology major at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Being an international student, she recognizes and emphasizes the need to build a global community that supports the development of an individual as well as the world itself. As the Communications Assi...Read more
Mutuma (Caelan)
Caelan Mutuma (he/him) is a second-year student studying International Relations and Human Geography, from Nairobi, Kenya. He is passionate about the intersectionality between culture, the creative arts, and socio-economic development, specifically within the Sub-Saharan African context. Mutuma has ...Read more
Noah Stuart
Noah Stuart
Program Assistant - Human Rights Training
Noah Stuart (he/him) is a fourth-year student studying International Relations. His academic interests include Canadian and U.S. foreign policy in addition to state relations in the Asia-Pacific region. He developed an interest in the field of human rights while researching recent threats to press a...Read more
Shogofa Alizada
Shogofa (she/her) is a second-year student pursuing Geography (Environment & Sustainability) with a minor in GIS and Geographical Computations. A Hazara from Afghanistan, she moved to the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples in 2017. She is joining the UBC ...Read more
Tamara Baldwin
Tamara Baldwin (she/her) is the Director of the office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE) at the University of British Columbia. Tamara has worked in higher education for two decades with a background in community/international development, student engagement, curriculum desi...Read more