The Carleton Academic Student Government (CASG) filled three contested seats for communication and media studies, political science, and public affairs and policy management (PAPM) councillors.
Jorja Darrington, a second-year communication and media studies student, was elected councillor and will be representing her program. She secured 14 out of 32 votes.
Michael Huynh, a first-year political science major, was elected councillor for his program with 26 out of 55 votes.
Allan Buri, a first-year PAPM student, will be representing the program as councillor with 53 out of 93 votes.
Gray Simms, CASG’s vice-president (internal), said the turnout for the election fell within the typical range, especially after two years of students being online.
“Turnout fell within the range we expected, however we are always looking to increase our outreach and connect with students,” Simms said in an email to the Charlat
The number of councillors decreased from 56 councillors last year to 44 this year. Last year’s councillor election saw high candidate and voter turnouts with eleven more councillors than the previous year.
Dakota Livington, CASG’s president, said she hopes to increase student engagement with CASG this year.
“We are excited to have already had the opportunity to engage with a lot of students during fall orientation and we have many more plans to continue the promotion and engagement throughout the year,” Livingston wrote in an email to the Charlatan.
She added that councillors are essential to student engagement.
“I’m really looking forward to empowering each councillor to make their time with CASG a meaningful leadership experience,” Livingston said.
CASG Councillors 2022/2023
1. Faculty of Public Affairs
- Sydney Weaver ( Communications and Media studies)
- Haley McDonald (Communications and Media Studies Society)
- Sarah Muscolino (Criminology and Criminal Justice)
- Carley Pompa (Criminology and Criminal Justice Society)
- Ben Lieu (Economics)
- Gabriella Pickton (European and Russian studies)
- Josh Garraz (Global and International studies)
- Cassandra Bellefeuille (Journalism)
- Annie Tuba (Journalism Society)
- Steve Mansour (Law and legal studies)
- Michael Huynh (Political science)
- Ally Krueger – Kischak (Political Science society)
- Allan Buri (Public Affair and Policy Management)
- Saiyara Elahi (Public Affairs and Policy Management)
- Daniella Akat (Social work society)
2. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
- Solenne Ntowo Djocgoue (Cognitive Science)
- Taran Allan-McKay (Cognitive Science Society)
- Jessica Bertoni (English)
- Ben Albright-Peakall (History)
- Zaneta Wilkinson (History Society)
- Guiseppe Ivan Sestini (Human Rights Society)
- Katelyn Madigan (Psychology Society)
- Sydney Logan (Sociology)
3. Faculty of Engineering and Design
- Charlie Brockman (Aerospace)
- Elyse Rogers (Architectural Conversation and Sustainability Engineering)
- Nikita Yovchev (Biomedical and Electrical Engineering)
- Bronwyn Hubbard (Biomedical and Electrical Engineering)
- Robin Feeney (Electrical Engineering)
- Ciaran McDonald-Jensen (Engineering Physics)
- Ty Summers (Industrial Design)
- Angus Jull (Software Engineering)
- Akeel Samji (Sustainable and Renewable Energy)
4. Faculty of Science
- Angelique Bernard (Biology)
- Bonnie Rebelo de La Rocque (Biology)
- Massi Mirella (Chemistry and Biochemisty)
- Michael Shaikhet (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
- Aaditya Chopra (Computer Science)
- Forest Anderson (Computer Science)
- Charlotte Rurenne (Environmental Sceience)
- Aisnley Lewis (Health Sciences)
- Megan Umubyeyi (Health Sciences)
- Mihir Bissessur (Mathematics and Statistics)
- Kiri Sidhu (Neuroscience)
- Sarah El Fitori (Neuroscience)
Featured graphic by Angel Xing.
