Teaching Team

Dr. John Paul (JP) Catungal

he/him

JP is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, and Founding Co-Director of the Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement at UBC. As a queer, first generation, Filipinx Canadian scholar, JP currently works in partnership with local Filipinx, Asian Canadian and queer of colour organizations to explore the value of community engaged and arts-based research approaches for uplifting historically marginalized communities’ knowledges, creativity and histories. His recent community research collaborations with Sliced Mango Collective, the Kababayan Academic Mentorship Program, Heritage Vancouver Society and the Community Based Research Centre have resulted in the Kuwentong Pamamahay oral history project, the HIV in my Day oral history collection at UVic and the In My Day verbatim theatre production.
His past work on queer and diasporic Filipinx politics in Canada has appeared in his co-edited volumes for the journals ACME: International Journal of Critical Geographies, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies and ALON: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies. His co-edited volume Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility was published by the University of Toronto in 2012.

christina lee 李嘉明

she/they

christina is a 2.5 generation Cantonese settler, born and raised on the unceded and ancestral lands and territories stewarded by hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Downriver Halkomelem) and Skwxwú7mesh sníchim (Squamish) speaking peoples. 

christina (UBC BA’18 GEOG, ACAM) is the community co-lead for ACAM320J and director of community capacity + strategic initiatives at hua foundation. Throughout her time at hua foundation, she has led many community-engaged research projects, including the Vancouver Chinatown Social Cohesion Report (2018) and Language Access Project (2021). She also leads hua’s internal transformation projects and co-leads the capacity building and consulting portfolios. She is also a member of the City of Burnaby’s Chinese Canadian Reconciliation Advisory Committee and Understanding Precarity in British Columbia Steering Committee. In her free time, Christina is an avid (but amateur) outrigger canoe paddler and soccer player, a sometimes-photographer, and strives to be every dog’s favourite auntie. 

About hua foundation:

hua foundation is a youth empowerment non-profit working on racial equity and civic engagement issues at the intersection of cultural heritage and social change. Our mission is to strengthen capacity among Asian diasporic youth, in solidarity with other communities, to challenge, change, and create systems for a more equitable and just future.