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Born and raised in Chandigarh, Ishpreet Anand began his Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree at UFV India. Two years later, he traveled to UFV Abbotsford as an international student to continue his educational journey.<\/p>\n
When Ishpreet arrived on campus, he immediately connected with SASI (South Asian Studies Institute) where he was provided with an opportunity to become a research assistant to work on the Komogata Maru 100th anniversary project.<\/p>\n
Ishpreet worked on a few smaller research projects at SASI, then joined the Punjabi Canadian Legacy project in its second phase under the direction of Dr. Satwinder Bains and Sharanjit Sandhra. \u201cI feel this is the cornerstone project for my career,\u201d he shares.<\/p>\n
Focusing on a collection of stories from early 20th century immigrants from India\u2019s Punjab region, Ishpreet was able to travel across seven cities in BC to meet, interview, and collect information from over 100 pioneer immigrants or their immediate family members. \u201cThe goal was to encapsulate each and every detail of how life used to be back then,\u201d he explains. \u201cWhat were their struggles as they immigrated to a country where they didn\u2019t even speak the local language? These stories are unknown and undocumented so the project\u2019s purpose was to somehow embed the main learnings into BC school\u2019s history curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Canada being such a multicultural and diverse country, it\u2019s important to increase awareness and acceptance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Connecting to the project on a very personal level, Ishpreet highlights \u201cI, myself, am a South Asian immigrant, and I was not aware of this part of the immigration story.\u201d He adds, \u201cfor us, we just take a 14-hour direct flight, but for them, it took more than six or seven months, sometimes getting stuck in European and Southeast Asian countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
SASI\u2019s Director, Dr. Bains, recognizes the \u201cwork of updating the South Asian Canadian historical record was supported by Ishpreet\u2019s diligence, hard work and enterprising nature.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked how he was impacted by the experience of being a research assistant, Ishpreet responds confidently. \u201cBeing an RA taught me important communication skills and helped me develop professionally as an individual. The experience definitely helped me boost my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe projects had no direct correlation with my degree but through these opportunities you get exposed to different things, discover your passion, and hone your skills. Employers want you to have diverse work experiences to expand your perspectives.\u201d He adds, \u201cprofessionally, these projects helped me create a unique story for myself allowing me to stand out from other candidates as I submitted my MBA application.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ishpreet graduated in December 2020 with an MBA from Schulich School of Business at York University. He is currently working as a Pathways Operations Manager with Amazon Canada in Calgary, Alberta.<\/p>\n
Punjabi Canadian Legacy digitized artifacts and transcribed stories can be found at SouthAsianCanadianHeritage.ca.<\/p>\n
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For more information, contact Elicia Tournier at elicia.tournier@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n 01\/29\/2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Born and raised in Chandigarh, Ishpreet Anand began his Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree at UFV India. Two years later, he traveled to UFV Abbotsford as an international student to continue his educational journey. When Ishpreet arrived on campus, he immediately connected with SASI (South Asian Studies Institute) where he was provided with an … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":26674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myufv","category-news","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26676,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26673\/revisions\/26676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}