About Me

NOW IN BC
UBC Erica

I’m a 3rd year UBC First Nations Studies student who blogs at 3am about UBC having a campus in space. Before the First Nations Studies Program, I did two years in UBC’s Visual Arts department. I’ve just finished a month long road trip through New Zealand with two other UBC students and now I’m abroad this term at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Click here to see my goals for the next ten years.

This past year, I was the Productions Coordinator for the 2012 UBC Student Leadership Conference and an Advisor in Totem Park, mentoring girls on the same floor I lived on during my first year at UBC. I worked at lululemon athletica in Kitsilano, the original store Chip Wilson created the clothes in.

University Background info
In first year, I joined a REC soccer team and managed to make it through the season without scoring on my own team. I started to speak at leadership conferences instead of just attending the nerdiest ones I could find. I also took a pole dancing class through the AMS Mini School.

I’ve spent time working for Me to We/Free The Children in their Toronto offices and have been behind the scenes with the MOB and We Day. I’ve got my own company called The Collaboration Company Inc. that has been hired by Brock University to develop a leadership program, all from my dorm room. I’ve lived and worked in Kenya at a super tiny NGO you’ve probably never heard of called Camp David (and I love speaking Swahili so come find me if unajua Kiswahili). I also identify with a few groups, such as the CMSF Loran Award, Historica Foundation, and the Top 20 Under 20 community.

I’ve worked for AMS FirstWeek, I’ve Stormed the Wall, been involved with AUS council, been a MUG Leader, and you may have seen me randomly present a prospective students presentation to you in a random Canadian province. I’m Erica, and I like to give all that campus energy and excited to you, through this blog.

ONTARIO LIFE
Pre-university Erica
Born in the early 90s in Southern Ontario, I grew up to be the kid who was student council president and unable to play any sport. While growing up, I was youth mayor of my city for a while and traveled to Guatemala a few times with a charity called Wells of Hope. My roots are in years of retail experience at American Eagle Outfitters, the Niagara Region, and LonelyGirl15 as a past reoccurring character.  At one point, I put 200 stuffed animals around my high school and yes, I called it art.

8 comments

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1 Kevin { 05.20.10 at 7:05 pm }

Ebakes, this page is absolutely fantastic! Love it.

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2 AJ { 05.25.10 at 8:05 pm }

I second Kevin.
You’re such a cool kid and I’m so excited to see what you do next. =)

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3 dylan g { 08.16.10 at 9:27 am }

Hey! Your blog is sweet! I was super nervous about going to school in Canada for a while, stumbled upon your sick little page, and it eased my mind. Super stoked to live in Nootka (though I think I am going to terribly butcher the pronunciation of most houses). Thanks for giving a real-world perspective on first-year student life!

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4 ItsYoungJo { 01.09.11 at 5:48 pm }

It’s reading things like these that make me smile and help me keep going, knowing you’d be the coolest kid on the block if you lived in my neighbourhood Ebakes

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5 Moi { 02.03.11 at 9:45 pm }

Erica Baker….sounds familiar … did you happen to go to Forum a couple years back?

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6 Erica { 02.03.11 at 9:46 pm }

Yes I did :)

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7 Moi { 02.04.11 at 8:23 pm }

Aaaah very nice, I was a volunteer then. Always so strange (but fantastic) to see Forum kids all grown up! Keep up the fantastic-ness.

And if you like free trips to Ottawa and want to help other kids live the Forum magic, go to the forum website and apply to volunteer ;-)

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8 Brooke { 05.14.11 at 11:40 am }

Hey Erica.
I’ve been reading random blogs by you, and you seem like a fantastic person.
I’m in grade 12 right now – I live in Mississauga, which i’m sure you’ve heard of since you’re from Toronto ish area?
aanyways, I’ve been accepted to ubc okanagan, and i’ve pretty much decided on going there. Every time i think too hard about it though it freaks me out – but then i read your blogs and i realize more and more how perfect ubc is for me.
I guess i’m just looking for some reassurance from someone who has done the big move from here to there that it will be great – and that i won’t have time for homesickness.? hopefully.
and I want to thank you for writing what you write and convincing me that i should, and can take the chance to move to bc. :)

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