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.
Vanessa Hogan
Executive Assistant
Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Administrations
Vanessa provides executive admin support for the AVP and EIO.
Dharshi Lacey
Director, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-racism
Campus: UBC Okanagan
Team: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-racism
Dharshi comes to this role with 20+ years of experience in the nonprofit sector. She brings a deep commitment to equity work, striving to shift the work from project work to systems work, challenging people and systems to apply a critical equity lens to their policies, practices, language and mindsets.
Silvia D’Addario, PhD
Director
Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Community & Capacity Building
Silvia has over ten years of progressive experience in leadership roles in the post-secondary sector, holding roles focused on advancing equity, diversity, global citizenship education and community inclusion.
Arun Mohan
Director, Human Rights
Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Human Rights
Arun and his team nurture dialogue, education, informal resolution of matters, and referrals for UBC community members regarding their human rights-based discrimination and harassment concerns.
Arig al Shaibah, Ph.D.
Associate Vice-President, Equity and Inclusion
Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Leadership
Dr. Arig al Shaibah has broad and deep experiences advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in community and in higher education, where she has worked to action commitments to addressing systemic inequities, promoting intercultural dialogue, and fostering accessible, inclusive, and dignified learning and working spaces where campus community members can thrive.
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.
Nicole Gareau-Wilson
Human Rights Advisor
Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Human Rights
Nicole provides impartial human rights advice and information to all members of the UBC community.
Elisabeth Giffin
Human Rights Advisor
Campus: UBC Vancouver
Team: Human Rights
Elisabeth provides impartial human rights advice and information to all members of the UBC community.