October 7, 2025
We are delighted to congratulate UBC Faculty of Education doctoral students Rohene Bouajram, Jafar Iqbal , Naomi Maldonado-Rodriguez, Jiin Yoo on their appointment to the 2025/26 cohort of Public Scholars.
Since 2015, UBC’s Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) has been supporting UBC doctoral students whose research extends beyond traditional approaches to address complex challenges facing the public. Nearly 400 Public Scholars across 10 cohorts have worked in partnerships with more than 200 partners in dozens of countries.
Rohene Bouajram (OSE)
Project title: Time Remembers Her Name: How Women of Colour Transform the Future of Leadership Through Ancestral Knowledge
Jafar Iqbal (EDST)
Project title: Worker as Educator: Reclaiming Knowledge and Agency in a Repressive Labor Regime in the Global Garment Supply Chain
Naomi Maldonado-Rodriguez (KIN)
Project title: Access and engagement with comprehensive HIV care: An intersectional examination of the experiences of migrant women living with HIV
Jiin Yoo (EDST)
Project title: Supporting Adolescent Children through the Canadian Education System: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Immigrant Parents’ Learning Trajectories
Read the full announcement here.
