Meghan Cheung
Meghan is a 3rd year Psychology major with a minor in International Relations. She has always been interested in understanding people, how they think, and why they act in certain ways which led her to major in psychology. However in learning about different people, she wanted to learn about the cross cultural differences and how to create a more interconnected global community. She hopes that by doing this project she will learn how to understand the culture and people of other cultures through a non-westernized lens.
Michaela David
Michaela is a 3rd year Political Science major with a minor in International Relations. She has been interested in the diverse ways by which the United States infiltrates global affairs, from providing foreign aid to intervening into a state’s domestic affairs, especially with regards to non-democratic states. By researching the effects of foreign intervention into Cuba, a state which has developed uniquely since its Revolution and the subsequent US embargo, she will be able to learn more about the motives behind foreign investors or governments seeking to control countries beyond their sovereignty.
Christina Lee
Christina is a 4th year Human Geography major, focusing on Urban and Economic Geographies, with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration studies (ACAM). Adding to years of social investment in Vancouver’s Chinatown and transnational studies, this case study will inform her understanding of how heritage preservation occurs under the pressures of capital influence.
Faisal Paktian
Faisal is a 4th year Political Science and Human Geography double major student specializing my studies in International Sustainable Development and Security. Inspired by the life-long work of Wangari Maathai, he is interested in regional development through local resources. This includes the study of energy politics, resource management and environmental protection. Throughout my years as an undergraduate, most of my academic research has focused on the politics of places that he has personal attachments to such as Switzerland, Afghanistan, Canada and Yemen. However, this project will help him step outside his common areas of research to a different side of the world, and study the effects on an embargo on development.