Our instructors

Alejandra Urizar

Jennifer Van Evra

Jennifer Van Evra has been working as a Vancouver-based freelance writer for over a decade. Her work has appeared in many publications, including The Globe and Mail, Equinox, Mother Jones, Elm Street, Canadian Wildlife, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver magazine and The Vancouver Sun. She also works as a producer, reporter and broadcaster with CBC Radio. Jennifer won the UBC Continuing Studies John K. Friesen Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013.

Shelley-Anne Vidal

Stephen Wade

Alannah Wallace

Alannah Wallace (MA) is a PhD candidate in the Attentional Neuroscience Laboratory in the UBC Department of Psychology. She studies the electrophysiology of the visual attention network and the use of behavioural strategies to optimize control of attention and/or compensate for stress on an executive system due to environmental and/or neurobiological factors.

Wanda Warkentin

John Warren

Suzanne Weiler

Erika Wong

Dr. Erika Wong, PhD, is a start-up founder, practising artist, podcast co-host and lecturer at various institutions. She has worked internationally in tech, fashion, and art strategising. She is a Fellow in Higher Education holding a PhD in Business from the University of Brighton in Brighton, England; an MA in Creative Practice for Narrative Environment from Central St. Martins in London, England; and a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Jack York

Jack York, MSW, RSW, is Program Coordinator of the Continuing Education and Certificate Programs at the UBC School of Social Work and a Sessional Lecturer in both the Bachelor and Masters of Social Work programs.

Jack is a mental health and substance use clinician, educator and researcher. Jack has over fifteen years of frontline mental health practice and clinical supervision experience, including training and experience in a variety of mental health modalities of practice. He has taught mental health and substance use courses in the BSW and MSW programs at the UBC School of Social Work, and has conducted research on concurrent mental health and substance use practice, including recent published scholarly work on the topic.

Jack completed a Master’s Degree in Social Work, specializing in health and mental health practice, completed the BCCSU Addiction Social Work Fellowship, and is currently a PhD student at the UBC School of Social Work, focused on concurrent mental health, substance use and low-barrier, harm reduction informed supportive housing.

Jack led the development of the UBC Micro-certificate in Mental Health and Substance Use.