Pre-university profiles

Meet UBC Future Global Leaders students, faculty and staff

Who better to tell you about UBC Future Global Leaders than our students, instructors and monitors? Read about their unique experiences and why they chose UBC Future Global Leaders.

Meet our students

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Christy

Future Global Leaders student

Christy’s experience in the Future Global Leaders Medical Sociology course ignited her interest in public health and planted the seeds for a career in medicine. She is now a medical student at the University of Alberta. Read more about Christy's journey.

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Shirley

Future Global Leaders student

Shirley found the guidance from instructors and connections with peers from around the world to be highlights of her Future Global Leaders experience. Discover what the program meant for her.

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Zach

Future Global Leaders student

Zach joined the Future Global Leaders to gain perspective on attending university far from home and to learn more about the different STEAM fields for his career aspirations. Read how the program helped him

Meet our instructors

Meet our student monitors

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Eileen

Future Global Leaders student monitor

The second-year UBC biology student from Saskatoon loved interacting with eager and ambitious students from all over the world and embraced the varied aspects of her role as a student monitor. Learn more about her experience.

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Ezra

Future Global Leaders student monitor

For Ezra, who grew up in New Zealand and Vancouver, one of the best things about being a student monitor at Future Global Leaders was meeting people from diverse cultural and academic backgrounds. Here's what Future Global Leaders meant for him.

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Mana

Future Global Leaders student monitor

For Mana, a third-year UBC visual arts student, the best part of being a monitor was connecting with people from all kinds of backgrounds – both students and staff. Read more about her journey

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Sophia

Future Global Leaders student monitor

Spending the summer as a student monitor with UBC Future Global Leaders was a “full circle moment” for Sophia, who attended the program as a student in 2018. Read more about her journey.

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Sophie

Future Global Leaders student monitor

Exciting. Challenging. Meaningful. For Sophie, being a student monitor at UBC Future Global Leaders was all this and more. Read more to find out why.

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