{"id":2,"date":"2010-03-25T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-19T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T06:33:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faiza Zia Khan is a Master&#8217;s candidate at the UBC\u00a0 School of Journalism. Her research interests lie in tracking the\u00a0 contemporary notions of mixed race and ethnicity in the media, in view of changing multicultural landscape of the Canadian society .<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25\" title=\"UBC SOJ 129\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/files\/2010\/03\/UBC-SOJ-129-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Faiza Zia Khan\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/files\/2010\/03\/UBC-SOJ-129-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mixedmarriages\/files\/2010\/03\/UBC-SOJ-129-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faiza Zia Khan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Mixed Unions in Canada<\/em> project is part of her Master&#8217;s dissertation. After interviewing 32 mixed race couples residing in BC, Alberta, Ontario (Canada) Washington State and California (US) the couples featured on this website were selected to become part of the project. <\/p>\n<p>Every one of them had interesting stories and a life time of experiences that came from a &#8216;mixed race&#8217; individual&#8217;s perspective in Canada and the U.S. The couples selected were chosen from BC as every one out of the 32 couples voted Vancouver to be the city that reflects the true spirit of a multicultural city.<\/p>\n<p>Faiza is part of the team headed by Emmy Award winning producer Peter Klein to produce a documentary on shrimp farming in Thailand for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/\">PBS Front Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She also interned at Canwest Global Communications Corp,\u00a0 for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalnational.com\/\">Global National with Kevin Newman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was the Research Coordinator for BC Health Ministry funded study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washwithcare.ca\/team\/\">Wash with Care<\/a> on the use of pesticides amongst farmers in BC.<\/p>\n<p>Faiza worked with NewsWatch Canada as research assistant for the book <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=cr4wSE_FGuEC&amp;pg=PA53&amp;lpg=PA53&amp;dq=faiza+zia+khan&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=YM8b5hxzHa&amp;sig=4vCDyZnsYejvPxUGtWYDQuEYCXw&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=pEnHS4HjBKSyMLiKmYgJ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=4&amp;ved=0CA4Q6AEwAzge#v=onepage&amp;q=faiza%20zia%20khan&amp;f=false\">Peace Journalism in Times of War<\/a> published in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Faiza earned a First Class Honours degree in Communication from Simon  Fraser University (SFU) , Burnaby, British Columbia. Her thesis \u201cAn  Evaluation of Ethnic Media and Audiences in British Columbia\u201d explored   multicultural audiences through focus groups and qualitative research  methods.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Faiza&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/faizaziakhan.wordpress.com\/\">blog<\/a> for further information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faiza Zia Khan is a Master&#8217;s candidate at the UBC\u00a0 School of Journalism. Her research interests lie in tracking the\u00a0 contemporary notions of mixed race and ethnicity in the media, in view of changing multicultural landscape of the Canadian society . The Mixed Unions in Canada project is part of her Master&#8217;s dissertation. 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