I am a UBC student majoring in Geography (Environment and Sustainability), with an interdisciplinary minor in Anthropology, Political Science, and Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (GRSJ). As a climate action and social justice advocate, I have always valued education as a valuable and key stepping stone in helping me to achieve my goals, and so the Environment and Sustainability degree specialization option, as part of the well-known and distinguished UBC Geography department, seemed fitting as a program that would expand my knowledge and give me the tools to do research regarding my interests. I am particularly interested in urban geography, as it relates to urban renewal and social hierarchies within Vancouver. I am also interested in transit mapping, queer and feminist theory, and migration patterns from Asia as it relates to my family’s ancestry four generations ago from my own.
I do not attempt to solve any of the world’s problems while studying at UBC, but I do hope to learn and think more critically about problems relating to social inequality, specifically when working within the climate action and sustainability worlds. In doing this, I want to work towards having hard conversations about privilege, the concept of sustainability and its relation to the Global North, and about hyphenated identities within Canada.
