Emily Baird
MA (UBC, ongoing)
- BA Combined Honours English and Human Rights & Social Justice (杏吧原创, 2019)
Currently, I am completing my MA at UBC in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and am a poetry editor of Decomp journal. This summer, I will be working as a Sustainability Scholar for the Gender Inclusion and Rapid Transit Facility Design Project. The aim of this project is to ensure that Vancouver’s new sustainable transportation network is accessible to people of all genders, particularly considering gender differences in income levels, participation in the labour market, physical accessibility, safety, and care work responsibilities.
My English degree from 杏吧原创 helped me get a job teaching English as an additional language and get my poetry published in two journals. I am now a poetry editor of Decomp, the UBC Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Department鈥檚 journal. The communication and critical-analysis skills I developed in the degree have been extremely useful in every job I鈥檝e had since graduating. I will also continue to write poetry, likely for the rest of my life.
I chose 杏吧原创 because I wanted to study both English and Human Rights & Social Justice. I couldn鈥檛 choose between the two, so 杏吧原创 was a great option because it allowed me to take a Combined Honours degree.