Institutional Initiatives Planning & Evaluation team

The Planning & Evaluation team supports efforts to mobilize actions and commitments across UBC’s EDI and anti-racism related strategic plans, as articulated in UBC’s Strategic Equity and Anti-Racism Framework and Roadmap to Change (including, for example, but not limited to UBC’s Inclusion Action Plan, Employment Equity Plan and Canada Research Chairs (CRC) EDI Action Plan). 

Through improving institutional EDI-related data infrastructure and data literacy; development and dissemination of an evolving suite of tools and resources; coordination and facilitation support of communities of practice and working groups, and direct consultations, the team supports strategic planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting of EDI efforts across UBC.

Inas Ettayebi

Strategist, Institutional Initiatives

Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Planning & Evaluation

Inas excels at blending smart planning skills with a strong understanding of how to deliver services effectively. Her professional path showcases her adeptness at transforming overarching objectives into actionable, growth-driven strategies that enhance operational efficiency.

Mahta Khoshnam Tehrani

Mahta Khoshnam Tehrani

Manager, Data, Analytics, Reporting & Evaluation

Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Planning & Evaluation

Mahta provides support for data-informed planning, implementation, and evaluation of institutional initiatives and for reporting on progress and outcomes of strategic plans related to promoting EDI.

Rebekah Chotem

Project Manager, Institutional Initiatives

Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Planning & Evaluation

Rebekah provides project management support for the StEAR Framework and roadmap to change, as well as the CRC EDI Action Plan and other projects within the Equity and Inclusion office.

Ikechukwu Ibebugwu

Project Manager, Institutional Initiatives

Campus: UBC Okanagan
Team: Planning & Evaluation

As a Project Manager, Ike manages small to large-scale projects to advance work around one of UBC’s guiding principles, promoting equity, anti-racism.

Elsie Achugbue

Director, Institutional Initiatives

Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Leadership, Planning & Evaluation

Elsie is a planner, evaluator, manager, researcher and writer with 20 years of experience promoting equity and empowerment in community and economic development and city and regional planning.

Lucy Buchanan-Parker, MSc

Associate Director, Institutional Initiatives

Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Planning & Evaluation

Lucy manages implementation structures and processes to advance UBC’s Strategic Equity and Anti-Racism (StEAR) Framework and Roadmap for Change and provides leadership on project management in the EIO.

Louise Griep, MA

Strategist, Institutional Initiatives

Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Planning & Evaluation

Louise facilitates the implementation of the Canada Research Chair Equity & Diversity Action Plan, and the Inclusion Action Leads Community of Practice, and supports other strategic EDI initiatives.

Maureen Mendoza, MA

Project Manager

Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Planning & Evaluation

As project manager, Maureen supports institutional plan development and implementation across UBC and projects internal to the EIO.

Sahir Moosvi, MDS

Data Analyst

Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Planning & Evaluation

Sahir supports the development of projects expanding the use of EDI data to support institutional initiatives as a member of both the Equity & Inclusion Office (EIO) and the Planning and Institutional Research Office (PAIR).