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SUMMARY:Open Access to the Student Voice
DESCRIPTION:Join the UBC Alma Mater Society and the Students' Union Ok
 anagan of UBC to learn about student-led advocacy efforts on open educ
 ation and open access at UBC. This session will highlight the provinci
 al campaign efforts of both groups and examine barriers limiting acces
 s to education.\nSpeakers' Bios\nTashia Kootenayoo, Vice President Int
 ernal of the SUO of UBC Vancouver\nI'm Tashia Kootenayoo, an Indigenou
 s, queer-identifying woman from the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation. I've b
 een a student-leader on my campus for the past few years and am curren
 tly the elected Vice-President Internal of the SUO of UBC. My advocacy
  work does currently centers on creating more accessibility to educati
 on through OERs. I'm continuously mobilizing and leading initiatives t
 hat aim to challenge traditional pedagogy in order to improve the univ
 ersity environment and administrative structures for students. A refle
 ction of these efforts is the establishment of a UBC Okanagan Open Edu
 cation Working Group which I co-chair on behalf of the Students' Union
 . It's my belief that if our governing structures have informed leader
 s and policies that are intersectional- we can have processes and prac
 tices that truly benefit those they're meant to assist. \nShivani Meh
 ta, Associate Vice-President, Academic Affairs at the Alma Mater Soci
 ety, UBC Vancouver\nMy name is Shivani Mehta. I am a woman of South As
 ian heritage and a first-generation Canadian student with the privileg
 e of learning on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of 
 the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking Musqueam people. Over the past few 
 years, I have actively engaged with leadership roles that have broaden
 ed my perspective and reaffirmed my passion for education. Within my c
 urrent role as the appointed Associate Vice-President, Academic Affair
 s at the Alma Mater Society, I advocate for greater accessible and aff
 ordable learning materials for students. I am deeply passionate about 
 removing barriers to learning within our classrooms and within our cam
 pus culture. Through initiatives such as the #TextbookBroke Campaign a
 nd the Open Champions Award, our team works towards achieving this goa
 l. I am grateful to be collaborating with the UBC Vancouver Open Educa
 tional Working Group and the UBCSUO as we engage with our community an
 d promote equity within academia at UBC.\n\nFor more information visit
  http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/events/open-access-to-the-student-vo
 ice
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20201022T140000
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WEBSITE:https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3584304
URL:https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3584304
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ORGANIZER:UBC Vancouver Library, UBC Okanagan Library, the Centre for 
 Teaching and Learning Technology (Vancouver), and the Centre for Teach
 ing and Learning (Okanagan)
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 Wilkin":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/JessicaWilkin
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