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meet the team

Leadership

Linda Nowlan, Senior Manager

Linda Nowlan leads the UBC Sustainability Initiative as Senior Manager. She has over twenty five years of experience in sustainability as a public interest ecology lawyer and NGO leader. Linda is an Adjunct Professor at the Allard School of Law and spent two years as a Faculty Research Associate with the UBC Program on Water Governance. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Nature and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Police force, and previously served on Vancouver'southward Greenest City Action Squad and the Boards of the Fraser Basin Quango and Smart Growth BC. Her advocacy contributed to many legal reforms, and her publications cover topics ranging from groundwater protection to marine spatial planning to extinction art.

At Westward Coast Ecology Constabulary,  Linda served every bit Executive Director, Staff Lawyer, and Director of the Marine Plan where she led a squad to strengthen sea protection through Canadian and Ethnic police. She besides worked at WWF-Canada,  the U.k. Strange and Commonwealth Office, and a Vancouver litigation constabulary firm. Linda has degrees in English literature, constabulary and international law.

Tara Ivanochko, Academic Director

As Academic Director, Tara works in partnership with the Senior Director to provide vision, guidance, and oversight to the USI. Tara received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh where she reconstructed changes in the intensity of the Indian Monsoon over the concluding 100,000 years and investigated the interconnections between equatorial and polar climate change.

Tara joined UBC'south Section of Earth, Sea and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) as faculty in the Educational Leadership steam in 2009. In EOAS, Tara has since served equally the Director of Ecology Science and as Associate Head Undergraduate Affairs. Tara has also engaged as a Sustainability Fellow with the USI to forward sustainability educational activity at UBC, as a steering committee member for the UBC Eye for Sustainable Food Systems, and every bit a fellow member of the UBC Interdisciplinary Education Task Forcefulness. She helped envision the UBC 20-twelvemonth Sustainability Strategy and develop the Faculty of Science sustainability course offerings.

As an educator, Tara builds relationships between students and customs organizations through collaborative research projects. These projects permit ecology scientific discipline students to actively contribute to building sustainable communities.

Central Support Part

Masoumeh Eghtesad, Authoritative Coordinator

Masoumeh (Masy) provides administrative support to the USI teams, and leads Hour processes within the unit.

Masy has a long history at UBC, including obtaining a Masters in Materials Engineering on the topic of magnesium removal from laterite leach solutions, her experience working at UBC finance in both payroll and accounts payable positions, and her feel in research for the department of Chemical Engineering.

Jon Garner, Communications and Appointment Manager

Jon is a Communications and Engagement Director with experience in education, non-profit, private sector and regime. He holds a Masters in Resource and Environmental Management from Simon Fraser University.

Equally at home behind a pop-upwardly booth or keyboard, Jon has designed and implemented strategic communications plans that integrate media relations, advertisement, websites, videos, social media, experiential events, and more.

Jon oversees the product of key USI publications including the Annual Sustainability Report, engagement activities such as Imagine day booths, and cross-campus appointment campaigns like Let'south Choose to Reuse.

Natalie Hawryshkewich, Communications and Engagement Specialist

Natalie has a Available of Design from Ryerson University and a Master in Library and Information Studies from UBC.

Her experience in blueprint and communications spans publishing, academia, and the arts including work with the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia, SFU Public Square, and the Roundhouse Customs Arts and Recreation Centre.

Tim Herron, CIRS Events and Engagement Manager

Tim has worked at UBC since 2012. He has had many careers from teaching kindergarten to carpentry to working backstage on big rock shows and raves.

Activist, lover of theatre and movie.

Alejandra Urcelay, Data Manager

Every bit the Data Manager for the Sustainability Hub, Alejandra supports reporting, analysis, and advice activities. In add-on, she collaborates with other partners including UBC's Campus & Community Planning, Wellbeing, and the UBC Okanagan Sustainability Function. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Ecology Engineering from Universidad La Salle, Mexico and a Masters in Science in Resources, Surroundings and Sustainability from UBC.

Alejandra has experience working in environmental consulting services including environmental and social bear on assessments, environmental monitoring, climate change impacts cess, and spatial modelling projects.

Alejandra's current piece of work focuses on analyzing institutional data to highlight trends in sustainability performance and in providing evidence-based insights and recommendations that inform future programs and activities.

Regional and International Date

Victoria Smith, Director, Regional & International Engagement
Co-Executive Managing director, International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN)

As the Manager of Regional and International Engagement with the UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI), Victoria works with staff, students, faculty and external partners to assistance advance UBC's internationally renowned leadership in sustainability.

Since joining the squad in 2014, Victoria has led the evolution of the UBC twenty-Year Sustainability Strategy and the International Okanagan Lease on wellness and wellbeing, co-led the process of hosting the UBC President's Roundtable on Climate Action and the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3) President's symposium.

Victoria is also the Co-Executive Manager of the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) a global network with 90+ members in 30 countries. The mission of the ISCN is to provide an international forum to support higher education institutions in the exchange of information, ideas, and best practices for achieving sustainable campus operations and integrating sustainability in research and teaching.

Victoria has over 25 years of public and private sector experience in sustainability and holds a Primary's of Ecology Education and Communication.

Cait Murphy, Date Specialist, Regional & International Engagement

Cait is a settler of Irish gaelic and Dutch descent currently living in the territories of Tsawwassen Nation, Musqueam Nation, Stz'uminus Nation, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, Katzie Nation, Kwantlen Nation, and Stó꞉lō Nation. She has worked on environmental and social sustainability initiatives locally and away and has a keen involvement in climatic change and methods to motivate sustainable action. Previously, she led BC-based programs on climate alter adaptation and resilience, engaged local government employees in sustainable behaviour-change in the San Francisco Bay Area and coordinated communications for an ecology charity. Cait holds a MA in Disasters, Climate Alter Adaptation and Development from Rex'southward College London and a BSc in Global Resources Systems from UBC. She is a big fan of Halloween, graphic novels, and making new connections.

Teaching, Learning, and Student Engagement

Oliver Lane, Managing director, Education and Learning

As the Educational activity and Learning Manager, Oliver is responsible for developing, implementing and leading a range of programs and activities to support faculty members who teach sustainability and climate related courses and programs at UBC. These include the Sustainability Fellows Program, the Interdisciplinary Education Grants and the Climate Education Grants.

A UBC Graduate with a Masters degree in Sustainability, Oliver brings xx years of various experience in ecology education, program direction, poverty reduction work and non-profit organizational leadership. Before moving to Canada in 2008, Oliver obtained academy degrees in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in Business organization Economics and Non-profit Organization Management.

Kshamta Hunter, Managing director of Sustainability Student Engagement

With over ten years of experience in sustainability education and learning, Kshamta manages several engagement programs and provides advising services to support UBC educatee sustainability leadership and evolution goals.

Kshamta holds a Bachelor of Scientific discipline in Genetics, a Masters in Curriculum and Pedagogy with a specialization in sustainability education, and is currently pursuing a PhD investigating the evolution of innovation competencies for sustainability.

Jacquie Kwok, Program Coordinator, Education, Learning & Student Engagement

With a background in experiential land-based and ecology learning, Jacquie is passionate near enabling students to act as sustainability agents of change at UBC and beyond. She supports and facilitates a range of USI pupil programs and services, and provides advising services to students seeking sustainability interest opportunities at UBC Vancouver.

She holds a BSc. in Natural Resources Conservation, a Masters in State and Water Systems, and currently holds a research fellowship with the Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association (VBGA) working on developing their environmental education didactics and programming.

Karen Taylor, Director, Sustainability Scholars Programme

Karen manages the Sustainability Scholars Program, a paid internship plan for UBC graduate students to work on applied sustainability-related research projects for organizations throughout the lower mainland, Vancouver Island, and the B.C. Interior.

A UBC graduate with a BA in English language and an MA in Children'south Literature, Karen has an extensive and varied background in program management, project direction, marketing, advertizement production, academic writing, research, and editing.

UBC Climate Emergency

Nadia Joe , Co-Senior Project Managing director

Gä̀gala- ƛiƛetko (Nadia Joe) has spent the past x years working to support Indigenous communities beyond Canada accelerate their rights and interests in water security through diverse water co-management initiatives. She was raised by a river and loved into leadership by the many elders, leaders, mentors of the nłe?kepmx and southern Tutchone-Tlingit peoples. Her female parent is nłe?kepmx and sylix and her father is southern-Tutchone & Tlingit. She belongs to the Crow Association (Kä̀jet) of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.

Pablo Akira Beimler , Co-Senior Project Managing director

Pablo is a Co-Senior Project Manager of UBC'south Climate Emergency supporting the implementation of a comprehensive and just response to the climate crisis across UBC campuses. He is a Masters of Customs and Regional Planning graduate in the Indigenous Community Planning programme at UBC and has a B.A. in Environmental Economics & Policy, B.S. in Conservation & Resources Studies, and small in Forestry from the Academy of California, Berkeley.

Pablo was formerly the Climate Hub @ UBC'south Bookish Atomic number 82 and has years of experience conducting wildfire enquiry and facilitating customs-led and focused wildfire management, outreach, and youth education programming throughout Hawaiʻi and in S Lake Tahoe, California. Pablo's deep reverence for nature and passion for bringing together people from all walks of life drives his work equally a planner. He approaches customs work with empathy, integrity, and a commitment to decolonization and social justice and believes in the ability of collective activity, deep collaboration, and intersectional movement building.

Urban Innovation Inquiry

Binoy Mascarenhas, Acting Managing director, Urban Innovation Research

Binoy is the interim Director of Urban Innovation Research. He is responsible for developing collaborations that enable the utilize of the UBC Campus equally a 'Living Lab' to incubate new ideas of urban transformation. He too provides direction to research on urban mobility, dark-green buildings, and sustainable evolution.

Before joining USI, Binoy served every bit the Caput of Urban Transport at the World Resource Found, where he strove to advance an equitable and sustainable agenda across the global South. He is a co-founder of Equal Streets - a citizens' movement advocating for inclusive mobility in Mumbai, which put together the city'south start, weekly car-free day. He has considerable experience developing urban mobility solutions, covering the areas of transit planning, walking and biking, road safety and travel demand management.

Binoy is an urban planner and economist, and seeks to imbibe both disciplines in his piece of work. He is passionate near exploring new means to motion cities towards a path of resilience, equity and shared prosperity, with a strong focus on well-being and community life.

Angelique Pilon, Managing director (on leave), Urban Innovation Research

Angelique leads the Urban Innovation Research portfolio of interdisciplinary research and knowledge broadcasting programs focused on sustainable buildings and urban development. She develops collaborations and partnerships that take advantage of UBC'due south role equally a living lab for sustainability, utilizing planning, building and infrastructure projects every bit opportunities for innovation, learning and knowledge exchange.

Angelique holds a Primary of Compages from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Academy of Michigan, and has professional experience in firms in both Canada and the Usa. She has been at UBC for 10 years, in a variety of roles working at the intersection of research and practice.

Angelique is on the Leadership Lath for the BC Chapter of the Canada Green Edifice Quango; she is a certified Project Direction Professional, and a LEED Accredited Professional person with a specialization in Building Pattern and Construction.

Diana Lopez, CLL Research Project Coordinator

As a Research Project Coordinator at the UBC Sustainability Initiative, Diana Lopez contributes to multiple interdisciplinary research and noesis broadcasting projects and initiatives focused on sustainable buildings and urban development within the UBC campus. She has conducted research and participated in the cosmos of educational materials for multiple projects on campus, and she currently coordinates research for the Campus as a Living Lab initiative.

Diana holds a Master of Applied Science in Civil Engineering science from UBC, and a diverse background in project management and applied research focused on dark-green buildings, urban infrastructure and sustainable development. She is a LEED Green Associate and a Certified Associate in Projection Direction.

Megan Badri, Inquiry Technician/Projection lead, Urban Innovation Research

Megan is a research technician at the UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI). Her role is coordinating on noesis capture and dissemination projects and leading research and initiatives focused on high operation, low carbon, and sustainable buildings.

Prior to joining UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI), she'd been working as a building sustainability analyst and scholar with both industry and research centers, responsible for engaging in activities to leverage, back up, and promote services in the field of energy efficient buildings, green rating systems, and sustainable built environs.

Megan concur a Master Degree in Free energy and Architectural Engineering from the University of Tehran, and currently she is pursuing her PhD in Ecology Design at the University of Calgary. Her enquiry focus is eliminating building environmental impacts by integrating Life Cycle Cess (LCA) and energy performance analysis. She is a LEED Green Associate.

Hassan Al Bqaei, Interim Research Technician

Hassan's role involves knowledge capture, broadcasting, and leading inquiry on the Vienna House projection, focusing on high performance, low carbon, affordable and sustainable housing. Hassan holds a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from UBC, specializing in Project and Structure Management. He is besides a LEED Green Building Associate.

Hassan was born and raised in Jordan, and aspires to contribute to sustainable community development and greenish building in 3rd globe countries. He has worked with various social enterprises and initiatives addressing circular economy. He is passionate about researching innovative solutions for the environmental impacts of textile consumption, and its human relationship with intergenerational equity.

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