Component 1 (UBC Academic Workers)

Find Your Representatives

If you’re experiencing an issue at work, your peer union representatives are the first place to go to start getting the issue resolved!

Stewards are your co-workers who are elected to represent you and the union. They are the first point of contact if you have any questions, concerns, curiosities, or quandaries. To find a steward who works in a department near you, consult the list below, or send an email to the Grievance Officer (grievance@cupe2278.ca) or the Lead Steward assigned to your faculty group.

If you can’t find a steward in your department, please fill out the request for info/assistance form (embedded in this website and linked here), and a union representative will be in contact with you.

Find Your Steward

  • Lead Steward: Cam Gilbert (cupe2278arts@gmail.com)

    English: Julia DaSilva

    FHIS: Emmy Issartial (fhis.steward@gmail.com)

    Geography: Rachel Stern & Tonia Nwobodo

    Linguistics: Noah Luntzlara (cupe2278linguisticssteward@gmail.com)

    Philosophy: Cam Gilbert

    Psychology: Cameron Hall

  • Lead Steward: Maggie Slein (cupe2278sciences@gmail.com)

    Botany: Reilly Perovich (cupe2278botanysteward@gmail.com)

    Chemistry: Seja Elgadi, Sydney Mikulin, and Oscar Lama

    Computer Science: Bereket Guta, Ryan Smith, and Karthik Nishanth

    Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science (EOAS): Kat Benevides & BD Voss

    Microbiology and Immunology: Tatiana Lau and Juan Burckhardt

    Physics and Astronomy: Katelynn Hubenig, Joshua Lerner, and Surya Raman (cupe2278phas.steward@gmail.com)

    Zoology: Maggie Slein

  • Lead Steward: Imran Uddin

    Civil Engineering: Keegan Parkhurst

    Electrical Engineering: Imran Uddin

    Mechanical Engineering: Musanna Galib, Jess Tran, & Jess Wolf

  • Lead Steward: Serene Rodrigues

    Education: Balraj Rathod

  • Medical Genetics: Martin Wong (Member Liaison)

  • Hooman Tavakolizadeh

Component 1 Leadership Committee

The Component 1 Leadership Committee makes decisions about the strategic direction of Component 1. This committee is chaired by the Component 1 Chair Jess Tran (comp1chair@cupe2278.ca) and is composed of elected executives who are members of Component 1. The current composition of the committee is:

C1 Chair Jess Tran ( comp1chair@cupe2278.ca)

President Drew Hall (president@cupe2278.ca)

Vice President Jess Wolf (vp@cupe2278.ca)

Secretary-Treasurer Daniel Crook (treasurer@cupe2278.ca)

Grievance Officer Keegan Parkhurst (grievance@cupe2278.ca)

Recording Secretary Tonia Nwobodo (communications@cupe2278.ca)

Equity Officer Reilly Perovich (equity@cupe2278.ca)

To put an issue in front of the committee, contact the Component 1 Chair: comp1chair@cupe2278.ca