The 2021 Carleton University Students Association (CUSA) election has seen an increase in candidates running for both executive and councillor positions. 

27 candidates are currently running for an executive position, with all six of the executive positions having at least three candidates vying for the job. The vice-president (community engagement) position is seeing the most competitions with six candidates.

Of the past six elections, this year has seen the highest number of candidates running for executive and councillor positions. [Graphic by Safiyah Marhnouj]
This year’s election has also seen a slight rise in the number of slates compared to last year with two slates currently in the race. More than half of the candidates—15 out of 27—are running independently. 

The candidacy for CUSA councillor positions has also seen a significant increase from last year’s 16 candidates, with 54 candidates now running. 

Every faculty councillor seat has filled or surpassed the number of available candidate positions. However, there is currently no candidate running for the Special Student councillor position. 

Voting for the CUSA election will take place on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4 via Carleton emails. 

Here’s a complete list of CUSA 2020 election candidates, according to the chief electoral officer:

Executive positions 

President 

  • Kathleen Weary (Students First)
  • Matt Gagné (Ravens United)
  • Ammar Tosun (Independent)
  • James McKenna (Independent)
  • Jasmine Doobay-Joseph (Independent)

Vice-president (finance) 

  • Emily Buchkowsky (Students First)
  • Venassa Baptiste (Ravens United)
  • Ahmad Ali Mohamad (Independent)
  • Kareem AlWazir (Independent)
  • Manuel Osvaldo Lebron Flores (Independent)

Vice-president (internal affairs) 

  • Rawan Abdou (Students First)
  • Ahmad Hashimi (Ravens United)
  • Hiwan Bayru (Independent)
  • Liam Lowe (Independent)

Vice-president (student issues)

  • Sami Islam (Students First)
  • Valentina Vera González (Ravens United)
  • Myia Loback (Independent)

Vice-president (community engagement)

  • Divine C Oluah (Independent)
  • Callie Ogden (Ravens United)
  • Ibrahim Dokhan (Independent)
  • Michael Isa (Students First)
  • Sydney Holley (Independent)
  • Tiana Thomas (Independent)

Vice-president (student life) 

  • Jay Slawter (Students First)
  • Daisy Kasper (Ravens United)
  • Alyssa Arkell (Independent)
  • Emilia Perez (Independent)

Councillor Positions

Faculty of Public Affairs (7 positions)

  • Andres Reyes
  • Anthony Valenti 
  • Anushree Pathak 
  • Benjamin Lieu
  • Christian Wright 
  • David Noonan
  • Emily Sowa 
  • Ethan Brooke
  • Francesca Lepore
  • Gauri Bhardwaj 
  • Gray Simms
  • Haniya Saeed
  • Hibrahima Dieng
  • Jordan Vecchio 
  • Kayla Clark
  • Keenan Reynolds
  • Kevin Caswell
  • Liam Clarke 
  • Lily Huang
  • Mahmoud Elmasry
  • Michael Bradley 
  • Morgan Martel (stepped down from candidacy)
  • Nora Draper 
  • Pablo Mhanna
  • Sam Morency
  • Waqas Ali

Faculty of Engineering and Design (6 positions)

  • Cameron Davis
  • Dotun Ilori 
  • Grant Wilson
  • Liam Kelly 
  • Mohamed Faris Riazudden 
  • Omar Fetouh 
  • Rami Dawud
  • Saad Khan 
  • Sara Hubbard 
  • Yahya Masalha 

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (6 positions)

  • Ahmed Kataite
  • Baher Mansour
  • David Simon
  • Emma Rowsell
  • Hannah-May Found
  • Paige Arsenault 
  • Stacey Osazuwa
  • Viktoria Szabo 

Faculty of Science (4 positions)

  • Alexis St.Pierre
  • Ayan Waberi 
  • Conall McCutcheon 
  • Greg Dance
  • Hashim Awan 
  • Ken Lumsden
  • Michael Aide 
  • Patrick Ene 

The Sprott School of Business  (2 positions)

  • Diya Kulkarni
  • Musab Chaudhry

Special Student (1 position)

Featured image from file.

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