Meet Our Team

**Sara Buse**
Director, Experiential Learning, and Academic Services

**What is your favorite coffee?**
Traditional Cappucino
**What is your favorite TV Show?**
NA
**What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?**
Pacific Spirit Park

Academic Advising

**Leanne Kearns**
Associate Director, Academic Services

**What is your favorite coffee?**
Americano (decaf)
**What is your favorite TV Show?**
Schitt’s Creek (I am from small town Saskatchewan – it resonates!)
**What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?**
Aquatic Centre

**Catherine McInnis**
Academic Advisor

**What is your favorite coffee?**
Cortado
**What is your favorite TV Show?**
Saturday Night Live
**What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?**
Pacific Spirit Park

Anna Shevchenko
Academic Advisor

What is your favorite coffee?
Americano or a classic cappuccino
What is your favorite TV Show?
Friends, Schitt’s Creek, 30 Rock
What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?
Walking the Main Mall Greenway between Bean Around the World and the Thunderbird Stadium

**Tiffany Kanda**
Academic Advisor

**What is your favorite coffee?**
Iced Espresso with Oat Milk
**What is your favorite TV Show?**
The Pitt, Adolescence, Severance, Parks and Rec
**What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?**
Pacific Spirit Park

**John Jones**
Academic Advisor

**What is your favorite coffee?**
Flat White with Oat Milk
**What is your favorite TV Show?**
BoJack Horseman, The Pitt
**What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?**
Rose Garden (with a coffee or matcha!)

**Tina Chan**
Academic Advisor – Engineering and Vantage

**What is your favorite coffee?**
Pumpkin Spice Latte
**What is your favorite TV Show?**
Friends
**What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?**
The Nest

**Brittany Ji**
Academic Advisor

**What is your favorite coffee?**
Flat White
**What is your favorite TV Show?**
Suits
**What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?**
Beaty Biodiversity Museum

**Mavis Huang**
Academic Advisor

**What is your favorite coffee?**
Cold Brew
**What is your favorite TV Show?**
Cunk on Earth
**What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?**
The walk from Martha Piper Plaza to Rose Garden – I get to see more and more of the ocean as I walk!

**Rumiko Tachibana**
Associate Academic Advisor

**What is your favorite coffee?**
Hazelnut latte
**What is your favorite TV Show?**
Friends
**What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?**
Tower Beach

**Kali Dumbrell**
Associate Academic Advisor

**What is your favorite coffee?**
London Fog or Chai Latte with Oat Milk
**What is your favorite TV Show?**
What We Do in the Shadows
**What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?**
Nitobe Memorial Garden

Lindsey Palmer
Associate Academic Advisor

What is your favorite coffee?
A gingerbread latte (year-round, if I can find one!)
What is your favorite TV Show?
House of the Dragon, Arcane, Avatar: The Last Airbender
What is your favorite spot in UBC to hang out?
UBC Bookstore, specifically the fiction sale section

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