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Meet the Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Our Team Allison Beardsworth Director, Indigenous Strategic Initiatives allison.beardsworth@ubc.ca Biography coming soon. Leyla Nouhi Interim Executive Coordinator leyla.nouhi@ubc.ca oisi.admin@ubc.ca Biography coming soon. Gillian Smith Indigenous Strategic Programming Manager gillianr.smith@ubc.ca Biography coming soon. Marshal Polykovskiy He/Him | nłeʔképmx | MBA Indigenous Strategic Programming Specialist marshal.polykovskiy@ubc.ca Biography coming soon. Dray… Read More

Indigenous Strategic Plan Executive Advisory Committee (ISPEAC) Part of the Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP) Guiding Network, an innovative, networked, Indigenous human-rights based model for ISP implementation support, the Indigenous Strategic Plan Executive Advisory Committee (ISPEAC): Members of this committee are listed below, updated September 2024: Read More

ISP Governing Principles The implementation of the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan is governed by a principles that shape ongoing, past and future work. Transparency The principle of transparency extends to open decision-making processes, open reporting mechanisms and open communication at all levels of the university. In particular, open communications are essential across and between governance… Read More

ISI Fund Guiding Principles The implementation of the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan is governed by a principles that shape ongoing, past and future work. The ISI Fund is also guided by these principles. Transparency The principle of transparency extends to open decision-making processes, open reporting mechanisms and open communication at all levels of the university.… Read More

Student Led Projects Student-led projects can align with any (at least one) of the 43 actions in the ISP. If you are a student (undergraduate or graduate) principal applicant you will apply to this stream. Proposals submitted to the Student-led Projects Stream are adjudicated separately from proposals submitted by faculty, staff or post-docs to the… Read More

Faculty and Staff Led Projects The Faculty and Staff Led Projects Stream funds existing projects or serves as seed funding for initiatives that will look to be sustained by the implementing units/faculties. Cost-shared initiatives are welcomed. Seed funding is for new initiatives that will advance the faculty or unit’s Indigenous strategy, achievement and enhancement goals… Read More

Message from the Past President I am humbled to share with all UBC students, faculty, staff and partners the 2020 UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP). The purpose of the Plan is to guide UBC towards our goal of becoming a leading voice in the implementation of Indigenous peoples’ human rights, as articulated in the United… Read More

The Reconciliation Pole The ISP Engagement Process was designed to be somewhat analogous to the story of the raising of the Reconciliation Pole, installed here at UBC in April 2017. About Reconciliation Pole The Reconciliation Pole is situated on the unceded ancestral and traditional territory of the hən’q’əmin’əm’ speaking Musqueam people. The pole, carved from… Read More