Kerry McDowall
Kerry McDowall is an Associate Producer currently in Vancouver, who has worked on numerous productions in B.C.’s vibrant film and television industry. In this video profile, Kerry talks about her professional experiences working in post production on series television, how her years at UBC helped prepare her for a career in a highly competitive industry […]
Michelle Kim
A version of this interview originally appeared on the Asian Studies website, September 2018. Tell us a little about yourself. How did you became interested in Asian languages and cultures? I was born and raised in Surrey, BC. My mother is Korean and moved from Seoul to Canada in the late 70s and met my dad […]
Lindsay Wong
A version of this interview originally appeared on the UBC Library website, December 2018. UBC alumna Lindsay Wong won the 2019 BC Book prize for her book The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family. Wong’s story is a witty and touching account of the Asian immigrant experience and […]
Kate De Lorme
Why did you choose your program at UBC and what did you enjoy most about it? I always knew I wanted to go into the performing arts. I participated in theatre and music in high school and in the community, both on and off stage. When I graduated high school, I knew more or less […]
Jennifer Zilm
Jennifer Zilm is a librarian and a poet. She is the author of two books—Waiting Room (Book*hug, 2016), which was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovated Poetry, and The Missing Field (Guernica, 2018)—and research published in Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill, 2011). She has also been published over 50 times in literary journals and […]