At the age of 29, Dave Robinson never expected to find himself walking down the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) cobbled steps on the path to becoming a teacher.
Now, nearly 10 years later, Robinson credits the faculty and staff at the UBC First Nations Longhouse for going above and beyond to support his academic and cultural development.
“I went back to school to better myself, and that’s what happened … at the UBC Longhouse. [It was] the home away from home,” said Robinson, who is an Indigenous enhancement teacher with the Vancouver School Board and a UBC PhD student in experimental medicine.
Robinson and other members of the UBC community are coming
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