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...
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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...
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Platforms/goals: Excellent This past year, Campus Events Commissioner Alice Naland promised to deliver on two main fronts: accessibility and diversity. She planned to make events more accessible to all students, increase program variety and expand the diversity of people the CEC invites. Read more...
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Platforms/goals: Excellent Christina Read started off the year with outstanding platforms. Her biggest goal was to transition a commission that normally organizes in-person programs to the virtual sphere. Read more...
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Platforms/goals: Excellent The COVID-19 pandemic affected many Bruins financially, and Noe Garcia was determined to help. The Financial Supports commissioner had four main goals: to provide financial relief through campus affordability and campus policy relations, to consolidate all FSC resources in one place and – most importantly – to address the needs of students during a pandemic. Read more...
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This post was updated May 29 at 5:53 p.m. Platforms/goals: Excellent Zuleika Bravo came into the transfer student representative role with ambitious goals not just to change material realities for students but also to shift the culture of what it means to be a transfer student at UCLA. Read more...
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