{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-16T09:52:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T17:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2015-07-17T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T20:35:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About the Graduate Student Peer Advising Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Peer Advisors offer advice and access to resources to all graduate students in the department, and facilitate lively, collegial exchanges with students from many countries and backgrounds.\u00a0 Their role as a community builders is unparalleled.\u00a0 They stay tuned into what goes into building and sustaining collegial relations amongst diverse participants. The Peer Advisors are available for support and questions with respect to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Day-to-day UBC logistical questions<\/li>\n<li>Degree progress and time-lines<\/li>\n<li>Technology resources<\/li>\n<li>Writing, research, and assignments<\/li>\n<li>Conferences, presentations, and publishing<\/li>\n<li>Relationships between students and their supervisors<\/li>\n<li>Relationships between students and other students<\/li>\n<li>Adapting to life in Vancouver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This Blog site has been created to enable the Peer Advising team to share important information and useful academic and personal resources.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please don&#8217;t be shy: Contact us by email anytime! Our address is: edcpgradpeeradvisor@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who We Are<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2015-2016 Peer Advisors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Davor Egersdorfer, MEd student<\/p>\n<p>Tiantian He, MA student<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Murillo, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Ralph, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Jee Yeon Ryu, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014-2015 Peer Advisors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liz Beattie, PhD student (also the 2015 Summer Peer Advisor)<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Gautreaux, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Conrad Nickels, MEd student<\/p>\n<p>Nasim Peikazadi, MEd student<\/p>\n<p>Junsong Zhang, MEd student<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2013-2014 Peer Advisors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mahtab Eskandari, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Heather Fisher, Masters student<\/p>\n<p>Sam Stiegler, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Webb, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Kwesi Yaro, Masters student<\/p>\n<p>Guopeng Fu, PhD student (2014 summer PA)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012-2013 Peer Advisors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anita Prest, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Meli, MA student<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Webb, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011-2012 Peer Advisors<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julia Ostertag, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Anita Prest, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>James Gautier, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Jung-Hoon Jung, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Meli, MA student<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2010-2011 Peer Advisors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julia Ostertag, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Spector, PhD student<\/p>\n<p>Chessa Adsit-Morris, MA student<\/p>\n<p>Gloria Rodriguez, MA student<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009-2010 Peer Advisors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ashley Welsh, MA student<\/p>\n<p>Maria Jos\u00e9 Athie Martinez, PhD student<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Graduate Student Peer Advising Team The Peer Advisors offer advice and access to resources to all graduate students in the department, and facilitate lively, collegial exchanges with students from many countries and backgrounds.\u00a0 Their role as a community builders is unparalleled.\u00a0 They stay tuned into what goes into building and sustaining collegial relations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3938,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/edcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}