UBCevents Blog
Sam Sullivan, former Mayor of Vancouver, was a Featured Presenter at the 2012 UBC Student Leadership Conference. Lee caught up with him after this presentation to ask a few questions. Since Sam Sullivan broke his neck in a skiing accident and became a quadriplegic at age 19 he has had to breakthrough limitations to achieve [...]
We headed to the 2012 Student Leadership Conference and Lee had a chance to sit down with the opening keynote speaker, Sarah Kay. Sarah Kay holds many titles: poetry teacher, founder and co-director of Project V.O.I.C.E., documentary filmmaker, playwright, singer, songwriter, photographer, and editor for Write Bloody Publishing. Growing up in New York City, Sarah [...]
Keyanna sat down with Mark Brand at the 2012 UBC Student Leadership Conference to chat about why he loves Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and his “breakthrough” moment. Arriving in Vancouver in 2005, Mark quickly fell in love with East Vancouver and all of its neighborhoods. A Gastown resident, business owner and general fixture since opening his [...]
The UBC Terry Project hosted the 4th annual TEDx Terry Talks conference on November 5th, 2011. Angela Jung (aka Yellowrainbootz) was there for the day and had a chance to get some crowd reactions and a few words in with some of the presenters.