Megan Uglem
BA (2022)
Graduate Student, University of British Columbia
When did you graduate from the Uofa and what was your degree?
I graduated from UofA last spring with a double major in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies with distinction.
How do you use your degree in your personal and professional life?
My WGS degree has changed everything in my life and how I view the world. In my personal life, it is part of who I am and how I make sense of things as well as the frameworks I use in my professional life to analyze my surroundings.
What have you been up to since graduating? (jobs, education, research, awards, volunteering, projects, notable mentions)
I am in my Masters of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, where my interest lies in social planning. Much of what was looked at in WGS, social planning focuses on the people in the community itself and looks at ways to address social issues to build healthy communities. I feel this really ties in my interest and background of my undergrad and is able to make meaningful change.
Anything else that is relevant to your experience as a WGS student/graduate!
I think my key takeaway has been not only from what I learned in WGS classes which are so crucial to how I understand and think of the world now but also from the WGS community which was so vital to my understanding of self and learning who I am. It is such a supportive network, and I am so grateful to have been in WGS.
What are your pronouns
she/her