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Email

media.relations@ubc.ca

Telephone

604.UBC.NEWS (604.822.6397)

Address

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

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General UBC Inquiries 

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Telephone

604.822.2211

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Media Relations team

leadership

Kurt Heinrich
Executive Director, Media Relations and Issues Management

kurt.heinrich@ubc.ca
604.822.2064
604.376.5043

UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS TEAM

For inquiries related to university administration.

Matthew Ramsey
Director, University Affairs

matthew.ramsey@ubc.ca
604.827.0781
604.518.5835

  • University Counsel
  • VP HR
  • VP Students

Thandi Fletcher
Senior Media Strategist

thandi.fletcher@ubc.ca
604.822.2234
604.868.0896

  • Board of Governors
  • Development and Alumni Engagement
  • Provost
  • UBC Connects
  • VP External (Government Relations, Community Engagement, Ceremonies and Events, and Campus and Community Planning)
  • VP Health
  • VPRI
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Lui Xia Lee
Communications Coordinator

luixia.lee@ubc.ca
604.827.5781

Digital & Social Media

Peter Meiszner
Senior Digital Strategist

On leave

administrative support

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Pearlie Davison
Administrative Coordinator

pearlie.davison@ubc.ca
604.822.6170

Faculty Media Relations

Team members specialize in assigned academic areas of the university.

Clare Hamilton-Eddy
Director, Media Relations

clare.hamilton-eddy@ubc.ca
604.822.3813
604.837.7831

  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Indigenous
  • IT
  • IRP

Erik Rolfsen
Senior Media Relations Specialist

erik.rolfsen@ubc.ca
604.822.2644
604.209.3048

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

Lou Corpuz-Bosshart
Media Relations Specialist

lou.bosshart@ubc.ca
604.822.2048

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

Sachintha Wickramasinghe
Media Relations Specialist

sachi.wickramasinghe@ubc.ca
604.822.4549

  • Arts
  • Sauder School of Business
  • Education
  • Kinesiology
  • Land and Food Systems
  • Library
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Alex Walls
Media Relations Specialist

alex.walls@ubc.ca
604.822.4636
604.319.8128

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