Platforms/goals: Excellent For the second consecutive year, Naomi Riley set goals for her office that toed the line between daring and idealistic. Her main platforms – community, accountability, accessibility and affordability – are goals that USAC officers set year after year with varying levels of success. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Naomi Riley)
Platforms/goals: Excellent Arasasingham came into the external vice presidential race with 20 platforms centered around three main themes – In Our University, In Our Region and In Our State. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Aidan Arasasingham)
Platforms/goals: Excellent Emily Luong brought a sense of student-first specificity with her platforms. Going beyond the usual bureaucracy of the internal vice presidency, Luong emphasized goals aimed at affecting structural change on issues including rent, student-worker rights and administrative relations. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Emily Luong)
Platforms/goals: Moderate Time was ticking when Laura Laubach came into office. The general representative 1 started her term in February after the officer who previously held the seat resigned. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Laura Laubach)
Platforms/goals: Excellent General representatives have the monumental task of representing the student body’s interests at council meetings. Justin Rodriguez met that challenge head-on and planned to advocate for culturally accessible mental health resources, work with student-labor advocates and student-workers to create a student-labor task force and organize a research coalition to investigate issues such as cost of living in Westwood. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Justin Rodriguez)
Platforms/goals: Moderate Former UCLA football player Elijah Wade entered student government with hopes of advocating for the student-athlete community. Wade also wanted to support low-income students by eliminating financial barriers at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Elijah Wade)
Platforms/goals: Excellent Breeze Velazquez ran for Academic Affairs commissioner with a clear goal in mind: academic equity. She hoped to advocate for the removal of standardized testing and create a website for students to find internship and job opportunities. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Breeze Velazquez)
