Our instructors

Lena Ignatovich

Roma Ilnyckyj

Roma Ilnyckyj, MA, is a Certified Professional Editor with extensive experience in all levels of editing and proofreading. She works for Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, where she edits the coursework and exams that people take to become accountants. In the past, she’s also edited material for non-profit organizations, government, small presses, independent authors and academics. Roma has held a number of roles with the Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada), at both the national and local levels, including planning and facilitating study groups for professional certification exams.

Claudia Irace

Claudia Irace received her Laurea in Modern Foreign Language and Literature from the Istituto Universitario di Napoli, Italy where she studied Chinese, English and Korean as well as Far East Asian history, philosophy, arts, and linguistics. She studied and worked in China for two years where she met her Canadian husband and moved to Vancouver in 1999. She spent four years as School Coordinator for the Italian Cultural Centre before joining UBC. Her interests are languages and world cultures as well as kayaking, music, films and animals.

Emmy Issartial

Andrew Iverson

Sumeet Jaswal

Sumeet M. Jaswal is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at UBC. She researches human visual attention, focusing on how people negatively respond to another person’s small, repetitive movements, a phenomenon known as misokinesia. Sumeet is communications coordinator for Brain Buzz, a podcast that makes research fun, accessible and engaging for everyone. She's also a past graduate student volunteer for Let’s Talk Science at UBC, a charity that strives to improve the understanding and appreciation of physical and life sciences, mathematics, engineering and technology.

Marie-Gerald Jean

Alexandra Jewell

Hamad Jifri

Jessica Johnson