Elena Massing

Features Editor

Elena is The Ubyssey’s current features editor and 2023–2025 culture editor, and a fourth-year student in opera 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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An illustration of a curved green landscape with a river running through it and a mountain in the background. Wooden cabins dot the landscape and figures run across the grass and hangglide in the sky.

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.

Illustration of a doctor and patient with speech bubbles filled with scribbles.

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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