Vanessa Kim
2020 Undergraduate Arts Co-op Student of the Year Excellence in the Workplace During her term as Community Worker at Dixon Transition Society, Vanessa worked alongside the Communications & Development Coordinator by conducting social media campaigns to raise awareness about domestic violence, developing the 2019/20 Annual Report, and soliciting donations from approximately 200 businesses for fundraising […]
Grace Chen
2019/20 iSchool MLIS Co-op Student of the Year Excellence in the Workplace During her time as Library Technician at the Royal British Columbia Museum, Grace’s primary duty was to design and single-handedly manage the Archives Library Barcoding Project, a volunteer program that facilitated the barcoding of the museum’s collections, which carries over 100,000 titles. As […]
Henry John
Background In early 2020, Henry—a UBC History PhD candidate and PhD Co-op student—began his first full-time paid work term with the Kaatza Station Museum and Archives in Lake Cowichican, Vancouver Island, on unceded Ditidaht, Ts’uubaa-asatx, and Quw’utsun territories. Posed with the initial task of archiving a 300-box collection of records from the International Woodworkers Association […]
Patrick van den Brink
BA: Major in Geography, Minor in Education Where did Patrick work? Work Term 1 (4 months): Community Relations Associate, BC Lions Football Club Work Term 2 (4 months): Co-op Student, BC Corporate Services for the Natural Resource Ministries Work Term 3 (8 months): Strategy and Engagement Student, Department of Fisheries and Oceans – Fish and […]