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Our Staff Team

Work with us!

Along with our on-staff Coordinator, the UVSP hires for multiple Work Study student positions each year. You could be one of them! If you're interested in working for us, follow our Instagram—we'll post about our positions there as soon as we start accepting applications!
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Meet our team!

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Katia Bannister (she/her)

UVSP Coordinator

Major(s): Environmental Studies and Geography, Minoring in Indigenous Studies.
Home territories: The unceded and stolen territories of the Penelakut Tribe, as well as those of a number of other 
Hul'q'umi'num-speaking Coast Salish Peoples.
What do you love most about working with the UVSP? The community! There is so much hope, medicine, resilience, and love within our UVSP community. And it's so inspiring to see our community in-action and all the work this passionate group of people has accomplished in the past couple years—and the previous 25 years too!
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Haida Davies-McDermott (she/they)

UVSP Communications Officer

Major(s): Geography and Environmental Studies, minoring in Journalism and Publishing.
Home territories: North Vancouver, BC, the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish peoples.
What are you most passionate about within the realm of sustainability? 
Recently, I have been working on action-oriented approaches to curating community resiliency, and these studies are rapidly becoming more applicable to sustainability campaigns and practices. I am excited to see how this field continues to develop and to explore what I can contribute to it!
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Sarah Berton (she/her)

UVSP Administration and Campaigning Assistant 

Major(s): Environmental Studies and Geography, Minoring in Transformative Climate Solutions.
Homelands: Jaipur, India.
What do you love most about working with the UVSP? Because it is a vibrant community of like-minded people working to take meaningful actions in our community. 
Interested in working for the UVSP? Contact the UVSP at [email protected] to inquire about work study positions.

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We acknowledge with respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking Peoples on whose unceded territories the UVSP works on, and the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose relationships with these lands and waters have also existed since time immemorial and continue to this day.

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  • About
  • Get Involved
  • Current Initiatives
    • UVSP Environmental Roundtable
    • Ripples Zine >
      • Ripples Zine Submission
    • Bee Campus Campaign
    • Ventures into Sustainable Recreation
    • UVSP Book List
  • Contact Us