Vote for Experience

BOARD OF GOVERNORS, SFU,                                                    2009 – 2011
I have been elected twice to the SFU Board. I served on the Academic, Governance and Finance Committees.
•    Appointed SFU President, Associate Vice-President, Deans and dealt with highly confidential issues
•    Responsible for approving $430,000,000 annual operating budget and overseeing $1.2 Billion in net assets
•    Wrote SFU Board of Governors Policy B10.15 Consultation with Students on Tuition Fees

PRODUCER, SFU LipDub Viral Video,                                        2011 – Present
•    Fundraised $20,000 and managing 86 volunteers. Developed work structure and budget of entire project

UNIVERSITY RELATIONS OFFICER & AT-LARGE MEMBER, Simon Fraser Student Society,        2010 – Present
•    Ensured affordable transit for over 24,000 undergraduate students by leading U-PASS referendum campaign. Developed a marketing campaign, communications materials, delegated duties. Result of 96.43% in favour
•    Project manager for Student Union Building and Stadium project. I have worked on these since I was URO. I am currently chairing the Student Space Working Group and surveying students on the types of spaces they want
•    Chaired Space Committee, started renovations process of MBC 0 Level Lounge/ MBC Atrium Food Court
•    Managed full-time and part-time staff and student workers and two senior managers
•    Chaired Granting Committee with $120,000 annual budget allocation for 200 clubs, 52 department student unions
•    Reviewed club/DSU event budgets, found areas savings, revenue growth, and set detailed funding guidelines

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SFU Community Trust,                                        2011 – Present
SFUCT is the Governing body for 3,500 residents of a private mixed-use housing community.
•    Produced information and presented to Burnaby City Council the communities desire for the SFU Gondola

SENATE, SFU,                                                      2009 – Present
SFUs academic governing body: Served on Senate Committee on University Priorities.
•    Responsible for faculty, institute, school, and course approvals through research and analysis of proposals

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group,                  2009 – 2010
I was a director of this organization with an annual operating budget of $200,000 for social justice research.
•    Responsible for 4 full- time staff. Lead restructuring process for organization and elections as they were needed

PRESIDENT, African Direct Assistance Society,                                2010 – Present
I Co-founded this charity with a mandate to help rural school children in Ghana. Raised $3,000 cash/ $8,000 in-kind.

Vote on the Issues

Residence privatization remains a strong concern around the 1,800 students currently living on Rez.
•    At the SFU Board of Governors level, Kevin Harding and I worked extremely hard to make sure that any discussion of residence privatization was done in the context of 2 strongly overriding principles. The first was that privatization resulted in an offering of rooms that are affordable to students and that the second was that quality would not be sacrificed. One other victory we had was ensuring that SFU maintained final say over rent increases. I have been told that this requirement may no longer be there and will fight like hell to bring it back

Student aligned policies help in improving the student experience at SFU.
•    In October of 2010 I began a petition for an internal tuition policy for SFU. The petition resulted in Board Policy B10.15 Consultation with Students on Tuition and Fees. I will fight to ensure policies are aligned with student interests, whether they relate to parking fees, grade reconsiderations, special fees or other such policies

As chair of the Student Space Working Group of the SFSS, I’ve received hundreds of responses from student surveys.
•    At the SFU Board level I will bring up the issue of lacking student space for individual/group study purposes. The last time this was done with issues such as the AQ bathroom renovations, the administration listened

Graduate issues are frequently overlooked at the SFU Board level without proper representation.
•    I will do my best to ensure that a dedicated graduate seat is created on the SFU Board. Most graduate students cannot compete with undergraduates in the SFU Board elections, based on their extensive workloads