Staff


Charli Brown

Charli Brown (she/her) is taking on the role of Senior Program Assistant. In this role, she’ll be handling the Centre’s event planning, day-to-day admin, and general communications. Charli graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English from Washington & Lee University last spring. There, she studied how literary works (especially canonical fairy tales) construct gender and sexuality […]


Braden Russell

Project Assistant Braden (he/him) is a fourth year PhD candidate in Germanic Studies at UBC in the Department for Central Eastern and Northern European Studies. He is currently writing his dissertation on queer Jewish cultural production in contemporary Germany. In his role as the CES Project Assistant, Braden enjoys being part of a diverse and […]