Who: Nikki White
Unit: Undergraduate Admissions
Position: Undergraduate Admissions Coordinator
Since: February 2019
Is this your first time at UBC? No, it’s my fifth year at UBC, and I started as a Staff Finders employee.
Where are you from? Mongolia
Can you say something in Mongolian? Hамайг Нэргуй гэдэг. Би Канадад маш их хайртай 🙂
Fun Facts: I can say the German alphabet in less than 4 seconds 🙂 Also, my real name is Nergui Manalsuren (I know it’s hard to pronounce let alone remember 🙂 that’s why I go by Nikki White at UBC only to make everyone’s life easier hehe).
Interesting Fact: I’ve worked as a reporter at the United Nations in New York for two years and had a chance to see George Clooney at a press conference about the conflict in Darfur. Yes, he’s gorgeous in person. 🙂 Here are some of the articles that I wrote back then:
https://www.globalpolicy.org/un-reform/32457-q-and-a-qtime-has-come-for-a-new-un-womens-agencyq.html
https://www.alternet.org/2008/12/sodomy_laws_are_rooted_in_british_colonialism/
http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/02/12/603
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2008/03/11/one-electric-chair-ban-could-lead-others
http://www.other-news.info/2008/06/paper-promises-failing-trafficking-victims/
http://www.ipsnews.net/2007/07/politics-un-deadlocked-over-kosovo-independence/
http://www.cabsa.org.za/content/women-say-regional-aids-plan-falls-short-100608