Holly Benna
emailholly.benna@ubc.ca
Holly Benna (she/her) is the Program Coordinator in the Office of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE). She completed her BA in Sociology at UBC, and holds an MPhil in Development, Environment and Cultural Change from the University of Oslo. Holly has also been an active organ...Read more
Krista Knechtle
Krista (she/her) brings a decade of experience in higher education to her role as ORICE’s Advisor. Her background is in community engagement, experiential learning, local and international partnership management and facilitation. Krista first connected with ORICE in 2013 during her undergraduate d...Read more
Michelle Liu
Michelle Liu
Program Assistant
emailMichelle.Liu3@ubc.ca
Michelle is a student in the UBC Sciences Po Dual Degree program completing a BA in Political Humanities and Sociology at Sciences Po, as well as a BA in Urban Studies at UBC. She is passionate about critical and anti-colonial urban geographies, interdisciplinary forms of knowledge production, and p...Read more
Michelle Read
emailmichelle.read@ubc.ca
Michelle Read is an undergraduate student in the Global Resource Systems program at UBC, where she explores intersections of environmental science, international relations, and communications. She is passionate about advancing social and environmental justice through community engagement, political...Read more
Sarah Kwak
emailsarah.kwak@ubc.ca
Sarah Kwak (she/her) is a first year MA student at the UBC Department of Political Science for Comparative Politics. She graduated from UBC with a Bachelor's in Arts in Political Science in 2026. Currently, her research focuses on the impacts of generational political trauma on developing democracie...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