Alumni | SCARP | UBC School of Community and Regional Planning

Current Work: Professor, Department of City & Regional Planning, Cornell University

Mathis Wackernagel PhD 1994

Current Work: Founder, Global Footprint Network

Jason Hsieh MA 2013

Current Work: Community Food Liaison, Renfrew-Collingwood Food Security Institute

Murray McKenzie MA 2013

Current Work: PhD candidate, University College London

Juliet Van Vliet MA 2012

Current Work: Community Planner, Resolve Planning Services, private consulting

Jennifer Bedore MA 2011

Current Work: Assistant Professor, Political Science & Development Studies, De La Salle University

Zsuzsi Fodor MA 2011

Current Work: Food systems planning and community development, private consulting

“I will make a difference by bringing together diverse groups of people who do not necessarily have the same views to collaboratively solve complex dilemmas as well as to share and understand each other’s stories; by working with youth; by being an ally for those who wish to have my solidarity; by listening; and by sharing food.”
—Zsuzsi Fodor, Class of 2012

Heather Fehr MA 2010

Current Work: Regional Manager, Canadian Red Cross, disaster risk management

Jessica Hallenbeck MA 2007

Current Work: PhD Candidate, UBC Department of Geography, and Director, Hallenbeck Consultants

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Statement on the Mass Grave Found at Kamloops Residential School

The School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) continues to mourn the 215 children found in the mass grave at the Kamloops Residential School.

SCARP honours the collective strength of Tk’emlups te Secwepemc for leading - and spending their own resources on - the recovery efforts. We offer our condolences to all survivors of the Indian residential school system and their families. While this news is shocking, it is not surprising. Residential school survivors, families, and community leaders have known the reality that far more Indigenous students died in these schools than has been documented. As several Indigenous leaders and experts have said, including former senator Murray Sinclair, Canadians should be prepared for more discoveries like Kamloops.

SCARP recognizes the role of professional planning in perpetuating acts of settler colonialism that continue to...