Boaz Injege


Masters Student

School of Kinesiology

Faculty of Education

Boaz completed a B.A in psychology (minor in Greek & Roman Studies) at the University of Ottawa. At uOttawa, as a member of the Vulnerability, Trauma, Resilience, and Culture (V-TRac) Lab, he was involved in a project funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada focused on improving mental health services for youth from Black communities.
At UBC, he is a MSc student in Dr. Eli Puterman's Fitness, Aging, and STress (FAST) Lab, and he is interested in the interaction between stress, physical activity and depression among Black populations.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.


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