The Undergraduate Student Government spring 2021 election will take place from noon on Tuesday March 2 to noon Thursday March 4, giving University of Connecticut students the opportunity to elect their president and vice president, chief diversity officer, comptroller and senators.
In the running for the presidential and vice presidential seats respectively are juniors Christine Jorquera and Noel Mitchell, sophomore Mason Holland and junior Ethan Werstler and sophomores Niko Xenophontos and Abby Moran. Sophomore Chris Bergen is running uncontested for comptroller.
Running uncontested for chief diversity officer is junior Brittany Diaz, who plans to lead the student body through necessary, impactful change in order to create a safe and inclusive campus community, according to the Instagram account @bdiazforcdo.
Brave Space: Shardé Davis and Mason Holland
In the summer of 2020, UConn students made a pointed observation: the University had no single course devoted to the epidemic of anti-Black racism in the U.S.
Shardé Davis, assistant professor of communication, is a co-creator of the hashtag #BlackInTheIvory and one of the faculty coordinators of UConn s course on anti-Black racism. Copy Link
In a virtual town hall hosted by UConn’s African American Cultural Center amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in July 2020, student Guymara Manigat ’21 (CAHNR) and alumna Wanjiku Gatheru ’20 (CAHNR), pointed out that the University responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a 1-credit hour course, but had not done something similar to address the pandemic of anti-Black racism.
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