Mark Daudlin
Editor-in-Chief
Mark (he/him/his) is currently in his sixth-year victory lap majoring in Environment and Sustainability. Born and raised in Vancouver, he can often be found stand-up paddleboarding, roadbiking, or skiing while outside of school. His interests cover a wide variety of relevant, contemporary fields in global sustainability, but from this love of local outdoor recreation, he is particularly drawn to environmental issues seen and felt in British Columbia. Mark’s other hobbies include choral singing, ultimate frisbee, reading, baking pies, and trying out ramen shops throughout the city. After graduation, he hopes to pursue further education and get involved in environmental work locally. This year Mark is thrilled and honoured to be the Editor-in-chief of Trail Six.
Devyani Anand
Editor
Devyani Anand (she/her) is a second year student majoring in Environment and Sustainability and minoring in Law and Society. Growing up in New Delhi, India she has always taken an interest in environmental issues and social justice which led her to organise community work to help underprivileged children in rural India. Post her undergraduate degree, she hopes to pursue Environmental Law. Outside of academics, she partakes in Art, plays the piano and basketball and enjoys reading.
Kiri Basher
Editor
Kiri is a third-year student studying Environment and Sustainability with a certificate in Climate Studies and Action. She is interested in political ecology, cartography, population dynamics, and how to apply these concepts to climate change solutions.
Amelia Creemer
Editor
Amelia (she/her) is a third-year student studying English Language and Literature with a minor in Environment and Sustainability at UBC. She comes from California and also works as an Assistant Producer for the UBC for the Women Empowerment Club’s podcast. In her free time, Amelia likes to make are or spend time in nature.
Katelyn Croy
Editor
Katelyn is a second-year student planning to major in Geography and Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies. Raised in Hong Kong and Tsawwassen, she is deeply invested in how the urban and natural environments shape peoples’ lives, and she is very excited to showcase her peers’ hard work in this year’s edition of Trail Six.
Alina Debyser
Editor
Alina is a second-year Human Geography major with interests in climate justice, migration, and urban design, and is keen to contribute to this year’s volume of Trail Six. She takes joy in beautiful data visualizations, book cover designs, key lime pie, and snowboarding. Despite living in Vancouver for over a year and a half now, she still experiences a renewed state of awe every morning when seeing the mountains.
Jacob Ereshefsky
Editor
Jacob (he/him) is a third-year student majoring in Human Geography with a minor in Urban Studies. Coming from Calgary, Alberta, his areas of interest are primarily housing and transit policy within the contexts of planning and migration studies. In his free time, he enjoys hiking in the mountains and exploring new corners of the city.
Lisa Fylypchuk
Editor
Lisa is a second-year student pursuing a major in Environment and Sustainability. What she loves most about this discipline is the freedom that it provides in exploring real-world topics through a multiplicity of perspectives. She is interested most in biodiversity, politics and the environmental impacts of consumerism. She joined Trail Six to become more involved in her community and to be introduced to a wider array of geographical topics. In her free time, she enjoys exploring the city, reading horror novels and thrifting with her friends.
Regina Hipolito
Editor
Regina is a fourth year student majoring in Geography Honours and minoring in Urban Studies.
She was born in the Philippines, but spent most of her formative years in Qatar and in Regina, Saskatchewan, and now resides in Burnaby, British Columbia. Her upbringing and cultural background has shaped her greatly and has defined her academic research interests, which are the politics of belonging, identity, and place-making in deconstructing the definition of home.
Madeline Laurendeau
Editor
Madeline Laurendeau (she/her) is a first-time editor at trail 6, currently working on her 3rd year of her bachelor of arts degree with a double major in human geography and Indigenous studies. She is Red River Métis from Winnipeg, Manitoba. With time spent living in both Winnipeg and Vancouver, she is interested in studying urban Indigenous experiences and hopes to focus her research on topics in Indigenous geographies as well as climate justice.
Dominic Malana
Editor
Dominic (he/him/his) is a third-year student studying Human Geography with a minor in Urban Studies. His passion for urbanism can be attributed to having spent his whole life in Vancouver, but he wishes to continue his studies abroad to further explore the geopolitical effects of urbanization in the developing world. In his free time, Dominic enjoys producing music and venturing into nature.
Marco Meyer
Editor
Marco is a fourth year student majoring in Human Geography with a minor in Urban Studies. His experience travelling has inspired his various academic interests such as urbanism, conservation, and development in the Global South. He looks forward to continuing to research these topics in the future. In his spare time, Marco enjoys playing tennis, listening to music, and trying new restaurants.
Isabella Montecalvo
Editor
Isabella (she/her) is a fifth-year student majoring in (Honours) Human Geography with a minor in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)! She is one of those “Third Culture Kids,” with a mixed background and has grown up all over the world (US, India, Thailand, Turkey, Switzerland). Her family currently resides in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Isabella’s upbringing has informed much of who she is and what she is interested in – maps, geopolitics, identity, decolonization, transport, environmental justice, urbanism, sustainable development and climate change mitigation (among many other things, clearly). Isabella is excited to be an Editor with Trail Six again this year and engage with her fellow editors and authors to showcase the stellar academic work of her peers in the field of geography!
Xavier Montessori
Editor
Xavier is a 3rd year student majoring in Human Geography, with a minor in Political Science. Born in Vancouver, he has moved and lived in many countries around the world his entire life due to his fathers profession, including Thailand, India, Italy, France, Dubai, Qatar, Australia, and more. The rest of Xavier’s large family (2 sisters, and 2 brothers) live in Australia on their cattle farm in a small rural town called Romsey, in the southern state of Victoria. Xavier’s passions include geopolitics, polemology, as well as colonial, post-colonial and settler theories. After graduating, his goals are to further his studies by completing his Masters in International Relations. Xavier is very much looking forward to developing his editorial skills, and to meet like-minded individuals in his field of study to share ideas with and work collaboratively towards helping people become more informed of the world and systems around them.
Noah Murdoch
Editor
Noah is a first-year student planning to major in Human Geography. Born and raised in the small city of Winchester in the UK, he is particularly interested in issues of global connections and geopolitics within the context of post-colonialism. Outside the class he enjoys canoeing, mountain biking and hiking within nature.
Tatum Narode
Editor
Tatum (she/they) is a second-year geography student specializing in geomorphology and GIS. She is excited to be an editor for Trail 6 as a way to get more involved in the geography department as well as to elevate fellow undergraduates’ academic achievements and creativity. Before moving to Vancouver, they grew up in Seattle where they enjoy playing music (especially trumpet) and being outdoors (especially to learn about cool mosses and bugs). Some of their other involvements at UBC thus far include working for Dr. Claire Kremen’s lab as both a field and lab assistant studying local pollinators. Additionally, before starting at UBC she worked for the Edmonds College Green Team in Washington state where she served her college community as an apiarist, water quality monitor, and social media manager.
Maia Rankine-Griffith
Editor
Maia Rankine-Griffith (she/her) is a second-year student pursuing a major in Environment and Sustainability with a minor in Biology. Having grown up in Thailand and the Caribbean, she has witnessed the beauty and resilience of our natural world, which has cultivated her interest in physical geography. Going forward, she hopes to engage further with sustainability with a critical focus on stakeholder engagement, extend her research experience in the field, and foster youth engagement in designing innovative climate solutions.
Thiago Ribeiro
Editor
Thiago (he/him/his) is a third-year student with a major in Human Geography and a minor in Food and Resource Economics. Originally from Brazil, but born in the UK, Thiago’s interests in globalization and migration stem from his upbringing. Areas where his major and minor intersect are of most interest, and he enjoys being able to apply concepts from geography in economics and vice-versa! Outside of academics Thiago’s many hobbies are running, going to the beach, and hip-hop. He looks forward to participating in the Trail Six editing process to aid the publication of the journal, hopefully learning some things about scholarly writing along the way.
Zainab Sayedain
Editor
Zainab Sayedain (she/her) is a third year student in the dual degree programme between Sciences Po and UBC, and is majoring in Human Geography after spending two years studying in Menton, France. Born and raised in Vancouver as a second generation Pakistani immigrant, Zainab has always been interested in justice, but is currently exploring global decolonial geographies and hopes to focus her studies towards that interest. She is incredibly excited to work with such passionate students and to read some of the incredible work that has been done in the Geography department.
Ellen Wu
Editor
Ellen is now a second-degree student major in Environment and Sustainability with a Certificate in Climate Studies and Action. Her first degree was granted by University of Alberta, Bachelor of Commerce major in Business Law, with a minor in History. After finishing her degree in UBC, her goal is to continue her Master studies in UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability.
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