The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our a nnual Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard\, so each year we bring in alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia – t o inform and inspire current students. This event will feature a keynote sp eech and round robin networking sessions. You will also have a chance to wi n raffle prizes (Asian Studies Merchandise)! Careers Night is the perfect o pportunity to make connections\, meet fellow Asian Studies students\, and f eel more confident in taking the next steps on your career path.
As a student:
* Ask the burning questions about
what a degree in Asian Studies has to offer
* Gain extremely helpful n
etworking tips (e.g. How to Use LinkedIn 101)
* Meet your fellow under
graduates and learn about their career and academic plans
* Gain an ex
cellent head-start in planning your next move during and after UBC
* Share what you did at UBC that
helped you succeed
* Give back to your alma mater by providing your i
nsights to the students of what they should be expecting
* Meet and ma
ke connections with other alumni\, faculty\, and students
* Meet poten
tial employees among our diligent and passionate students
Carli Rebecca Fink\, Career Strategist\, UBC Career Centre and Faculty of
Arts
Carli supports undergraduate Arts students in their car eer development through 1-1 advising\, educational workshops\, events with alumni and employers\, and collaborations with academic departments. She co mes to UBC by way of Ontario and Massachusetts\, where she studied psycholo gy and education and held roles related to health and wellness promotion\, identity and belonging\, university admissions\, and academic advising at 6 educational institutions and 1 non-profit organization. Outside of her pro fessional and academic pursuits\, Carli enjoys outdoor adventures\, all thi ngs musical theatre\, reading\, writing\, and travelling.
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Kayla Black\, BA ‘ 14 – Digital
Transformation Specialist\, Law Foundation of BC
Kayla holds a Bachelor of Arts in Korean Language & Culture from the University of Bri tish Columbia. Kayla joined the Law Foundation of BC in 2020. As the Digita l Transformation Specialist\, she supports the development of digital tools to streamline organizational processes\, as well as provides training to s upport the successful adoption of these tools. Prior to joining the Foundat ion\, she worked as program coordinator at a charity helping women and chil dren in North Korea.
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Gabriela Chen\, BA ’1
5 – Regional Merchandise Planner\, Lululemon
If there was on e consistency while growing up\, Gabriela found her lifestyle would always revolve around multiple languages. While living in Vancouver\, Hong Kong an d Tokyo\, she continued to be curious about how people lived and communicat ed with changing times.
After graduating from UBC\, she utilized her language skills by working with a Japanese trading company in Vancouver: in teracting with local business owners and chain franchises. After four years with the corporate environment she joined Procurify Technologies\, identif ying market opportunities for the locally-founded financial technology star t-up. In both experiences\, she felt the strong disparity between available data and decision making roles and pursued certification in Data Analytics in hopes of contributing to data pipelines that intuitively guides busines s decisions. Gabriela currently supports lululemon's product team in sales planning and forecasting at their Kerrisdale office.
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Faiz Jaffar\, BA ’17 – Member Services Manager\, AGN Intern
ational
While at UBC\, Faiz took part in all the Asian Studi es events\, spent a year abroad\, and appeared on national television in Ch ina. After graduation\, Faiz received a scholarship to study in China\, whe re he completed a Master’s Degree of Chinese Law (LLM) at Renmin University of China. While in China\, Faiz has worked at a Chinese law firm\, as lega l counsel for a state-owned Fortune 500 company\, and as a management consu ltant for international associations. In his free time in Beijing\, Faiz vo lunteered with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Alumni Ass ociation. Together with the Canadian Embassy to China\, Faiz helped advocat e for Canadian universities in China. For his work\, UBC honoured Faiz with the title of UBC Alumni Ambassador to Beijing. In 2022\, Faiz returned to Vancouver\, where he now works as a member services manager at AGN Internat ional. As manager he oversees membership activities for 10 offices across C anada.
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Richard N. Liu\, BA ’93 –
Honorary Brigade Division President\, St. John Ambulance\, BC/Yukon
Educated at both UBC and Peking University\, Richard’s family has long distinguished Canada-China ties for 3 generations. His career in Asia included areas of public relations\, diplomacy\, major events organisation to education. Richard now advises companies and organisations on a variety of sectors pertaining to Asia.
With both Chinese\, Korean and Italian heritage in his family\, and a passion for storytelling\, Richard has been a Heritage Commissioner since 2018 advising Burnaby City Council on matter s concerning the identification\, management and preservation and/or restor ation of buildings and sites with historical significance in Burnaby. He al so sits on the Barkerville Heritage Trust\, a national historic site with o ne of the oldest Chinatowns in Canada\, as a board member at large for mult iculturalism. Richard is also a leader in the development of a wide variety of volunteer projects from the Terry Fox Run to Special Olympics to the Ol ympics and Paralympics in Beijing\; to St. John Ambulance in BC and across Canada.
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Oliver Mann\, BA ’13 – Communicat
ions Strategist\, UBC Community Engagement + Freelance photographer and vid
eographerOliver was born and raised in Vancouver\, BC. He h as always been passionate about different cultures and languages\, studying French\, Spanish\, Japanese\, and Korean. In his fourth year\, he went on exchange to Ewha Women’s University in South Korea and interned for the BC government’s Trade Office in Seoul. After returning from Korea\, Oliver sta rted working as a Work Learn student in the Department of Asian Studies\, a t UBC\, and was hired full-time as their Communications and Events Coordina tor after graduating in 2013. Over the past decade\, he has continued to wo rk for UBC in a variety of communications roles at the departmental-\, facu lty- and VP-level. Oliver currently works in VP External Relations supporti ng how UBC partners with communities on Indigenous engagement and reconcili ation\, sustainability and climate change\, and other community priorities.
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Melody Pan\, BA ’14 – IT Systems Manager
\, Waterproof Studios & Freelance Translator
Melody is a lif elong fan of Japanese Culture\, Video Games and Technology. After finishing her studies at UBC\, Melody joined Bandai Namco Studios as a J/E Translato r /Interpreter both in Vancouver and remotely with Japan. Next\, she applie d her Japanese language skills at Waterproof Studios\, a Vancouver-based pr ovider of 3D CG services. There\, she was also provided opportunities to le an on the job with the Production and Technology departments\, and ultimate ly settled on a career of Technology\, which has led her to her current pos ition of IT Systems Manager. She also continues to use her Japanese skills on occasion as a Freelance Manga Translator.
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William Strausser\, BA ’17 – Data Analyst\, UBC Arts ISIT
Willi am graduated from UBC in 2017 with an Honours BA in Asian Area Studies. As a student\, William pursued his interest in post-war Japanese cinema and st udied abroad at Osaka University through Go Global in 2016. After graduatin g he joined the Department of Asian Studies as a Project Coordinator workin g on tasks related to conference planning\, faculty recruitment\, and data reporting. In 2019\, he became the department’s first Head’s Assistant befo re leaving UBC in 2020 to enroll in a one-year full-time Japanese language course at ECC Kokusai College of Foreign Languages in Osaka\, Japan. Return ing to UBC in 2022\, William later began his current position as a Data Ana lyst with UBC Arts ISIT\, which he works with student and faculty data in P ython\, SQL\, and Tableau to provide reports that support decision making i n the Faculty of Arts.
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Jennifer Ward\, BA ’12 – Freelance Translato r (Japanese to English)
As
a longtime fan of anime and manga\, Jennifer attended UBC with the goal of
learning Japanese to pursue her passion. During her studies at UBC\, she w
ent on a one year exchange program to Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan\,
where she polished her language skills. After graduating from UBC\, she par
ticipated in the JET Programme as a CIR for one year before beginning as a
freelance translator. She started off working through an agency before maki
ng direct clients and has continued to work from home as a freelancer for t
en years. She has since translated nearly fifty novels and hundreds of volu
mes of manga from Japanese to English for publishers such as Yen Press\, Ko
dansha\, Seven Seas\, and others.
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