The Media Relations and University Affairs teams on UBC’s Vancouver campus provides prompt access to faculty experts, important UBC stories and media resources. Team members specialize in assigned academic areas of the university.

A searchable online database of UBC faculty experts is available here.

Note: The contacts listed on this page are for media inquiries only. Please address all other inquiries to 604-822-2211 or find contact information for other UBC units here.

If you are unsure which media relations specialist to contact for your story, please email media.relations@ubc.ca and we will direct your enquiry to the appropriate person.

For general media inquiries: 604-UBC-NEWS [604-822-6397]

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• Media Relations Leadership
• University Affairs
• Faculty Media Relations
• Digital and Social Media
• Administrative Support

Address:

310-6251 Cecil Green Park Road
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z1

For after-hours urgent media calls ONLY: 604-822-3131

Media Relations Leadership

University Affairs

For inquiries related to university administration.

Faculty Media Relations

Team members specialize in assigned academic areas of the university.

• Business
• Education
• Equity & Inclusion
• Indigenous
• IT
• Kinesiology
• Land and Food Systems

Erik Rolfsen
Senior Media Relations Specialist
Tel: 604-822-2644
Cell: 604-209-3048
erik.rolfsen@ubc.ca

• Arts
• Dentistry
• Library
• Medicine
• School of Population and Public Health

Lou Corpuz-Bosshart
Media Relations Specialist
Tel: 604-822-2048
lou.bosshart@ubc.ca

• Applied Science (engineering, nursing, community and regional planning, architecture and landscape architecture)
• Forestry
• Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Sustainability

Sachintha Wickramasinghe
Media Relations Specialist
Tel: 604-822-4636
sachi.wickramasinghe@ubc.ca

• Arts
• Business
• Education
• Kinesiology
• Land and Food Systems
• Library

Alex Walls
Media Relations Specialist
Tel: 778-984-6173
alex.walls@ubc.ca

• Peter A. Allard School of Law
• Science
• Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute
• UBC Botanical Garden
• Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
• Video and multimedia

Digital and Social Media

Administrative Support