Elena Massing

Features Editor

Elena is The Ubyssey’s current features editor and 2023–2025 culture editor, and a fourth-year student in music and information studies. She won the Canadian University Press's 2024 Arts and Culture Writing Award and 2025 Community Service Reporting Award. She's most interested in reporting on the performing arts, queerness and health. Send tips to e.massing@ubyssey.ca and features-related pitches or inquiries to features@ubyssey.ca.

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Sofia Avelino is about to become a new Infidels Jazz classic. Last week’s Hero’s Welcome gig was her second time performing the music of Brazilian jazz legend Elis Regina after a sold-out show on Granville Island in May — and as Infidels founder Tim Reinert said at the start of the night, when you have someone sell out a show, you have to ask them to come back for another.

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Charles Menzies is running to be a faculty representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. He is a professor in the department of anthropology. He has served as a faculty representative on UBC’s Board of Governors from 2017 to 2020 and 2023 to 2026. He also currently sits on the UBC Vancouver Senate.

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Erica Frank is running to be a faculty representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. She has been a professor in UBC’s School of Population and Public Health and department of family medicine in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine since 2006. She has also served two terms as a Tier I Canada Research Chair.

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CampOUT! originally began as a day camp hosted at UBC and was inspired by a similar program at the University of Alberta, Camp fYrefly. It has since expanded with the support of UBC’s Faculty of Education, SOGI UBC and the Equity & Inclusion Office, as well as funding from community partners like Foundry — an inclusive care network based in Vancouver.

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For Young Joe, the most rewarding part of being a medical interpreter is the look of relief that takes over patients and doctors’ faces as soon as she enters the room. Without her, conversation is impossible.

The main area of the Ubyssey office, which has a blue couch and two large banners reading "The Ubyssey."

The Ubyssey is planning to launch several podcasts during the 2025/26 academic year, so we're looking for hosts interested in writing and recording their own shows.

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