College of Arts and Sciences

Sam Akins 

Freshman 

Key points:

• Bridge the gap between students and the SGA.
• Remind students how to get in contact with senators.

Jonathan Benton

Sophomore

Key points:

• Place more recycling bins in academic buildings and residence halls.
• Require mandatory video recordings of lectures for all Arts and Sciences classes.
• Introduce academic flowcharts for all majors in the college.

Maria Derisavi

Freshman 

Key points:

• Prioritize student safety on campus.
• Install more water bottle filling stations on campus.

Samuel Estreicher

Freshman 

Key points:

• Improve daily life for students.

Hannah Ford

Freshman 

Key points:

• Implement a mentorship program for students to foster relationships with peers and alumni.
• Strengthen student bonds on campus.

Olivia Frazier

Freshman 

Key points:

• Promote unity and inclusion. 

Eyram Gbeddy

Freshman

Key points:

• Promote equity, reform and accountability.

Taryn Geiger*

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Ensure every student voice is heard.

Mitchell Gilbert

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Increase diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
• Expand voter access in U.S. general elections.
• Pass legislation combating hate against Jewish students on campus. 

Sawyer Griffy

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Collect and manage SGA data. 
• Listen to the concerns of students. 
• Promote data-informed resolutions.

Margaret Jutze

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Implement ranked-choice voting to increase transparent, fair elections.
• Increase accessibility in housing, athletics, campaign finance and other aspects of campus life.
• Prioritize SGA participation in Women and Gender Resource Center Harbor training; Question, Persuade and Refer suicide prevention training; and NCBI Welcome Diversity Workshops. 

Mitchell Lynn

Year unknown

Key points:

• Provide menstrual products in bathrooms.
• Increase transparency in SGA operations.
• Pressure the University to acknowledge its history of racial injustice.

Kieghan Nangle

Freshman 

Key points:

• Improve campus transparency.
• Promote an interconnected community.

Xzarria Peterson

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Represent campus as an SGA senator.

John Richardson*

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Continue to work on advising within Arts and Sciences.
• Partner with Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault.
• Make the University feel like a smaller community by championing students.

Claire Roberts

Freshman 

Key points:

• Enhance mental health services.
• Promote mental health education. 

Carter Sheldon

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Combat sexual assault.
• Magnify marginalized voices.
• Improve student involvement at athletic events. 

Brian Szczotka

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Increase representation of ROTC and New College students.
• Improve access to resources for organizations, tutoring and professional development experiences. 

Tyler Tannehill

Junior 

Key points:

• Ensure substantial debate before voting.
• Open the SGA to all students.
• Increase counseling services and anti-drunk driving initiatives. 

Eleanor Wiltanger

Year unknown

Key points:

• Add a financial literacy course.
• List New College majors in the UA catalog. 
• Implement composting and increase UA sustainability services. 

College of Communication and Information Sciences

Jenna Berkower*

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Advocate for student safety.
• Implement further student engagement with student organizations. 

Victor Hagan

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Improve relationships between faculty and students.
• Focus on mental health and bring awareness to on-campus health resources.

Kaitlyn MacDonald

Junior

Key points:

• Promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Advance livable wage for student workers.

Morgan Patrick

Freshman 

Key points:

• Gate all parking deck entrances.
• Implement a mentorship program with Tuscaloosa schools.
• Perform C&IS Qualtrics survey on Reese Phifer improvements. 

Ally-Anna Outlaw

Freshman

Key points:

• Implement better transfer credit communication.

Culverhouse College of Business

Thomas Ashton

Freshman 

Key points:

• Create a contact book for University resources and local restaurants.
• Increase access to electrical outlets and Wi-Fi.
• Create more student events on the Quad. 

Nicholas Boyd

Freshman 

Key points:

• Make UA community members feel represented.
• Improve student safety.

Athena Critides

Freshman 

Key points:

• Advocate for the student body.

Judson Fair

Freshman 

Key points:

• Promote innovation in the SGA.

John Foster

Freshman 

Key points:

• Create an immersive program for first- and second-year business students to increase knowledge about a student’s major.

Myles Gollop

Freshman 

Key points:

• Work with the Elections Board to ensure fair elections.
• Work on problems with parking.

Hunter Howell

Freshman 

Key points:

• Make Thanksgiving a week-long break.
• Reduce laundry costs in dorms.
• Provide better opportunities for Culverhouse students to network with businesses. 

John McLendon*

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Make positive contributions to the SGA.

CJ Pearson*

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Increase funding to mental health facilities.
• Require all Greek houses, dorms and UA facilities to have access to Narcan. 
• Implement UA Day of Service to perform charitable acts throughout Tuscaloosa.
• Broadcast away football games within Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Lexi Sims

Freshman 

Key points: 

• Add a forum to help students voice opinions. 

Lucas Weldon

Year unknown

Key points:

• Extend the add/drop date.
• Streamline basketball ticket process.
• Increase freshman parking.

Tyler Zuspann

Freshman 

Key points:

• Introduce self-defense courses. 
• Put vending machines in Hewson Hall.
• Put a traffic officer outside of the Student Center. 

College of Education

Brad Day

Junior 

Key points:

• Advocate for student election reforms.
• Promote free speech and student protection.
• Facilitate a permanent return to pre-pandemic student life .

Seth Hudson

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Host pop-up community engagement events with senators and faculty. 
• Improve mental health resources.
• Expand research and leadership opportunities to College of Education students.

Jacob Rohleder

Freshman 

Key points:

• Listen to student voices.

College of Engineering

Kade Boeneke

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Improve networking between engineering students.

Clay Bruce

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Promote software packages and rapid prototyping to students.
• Improve study spaces in NERC, SERC and Rodgers library.
• Clarify course plans for engineering majors.

Alexander East

Freshman 

Key points:

• Implement more business involvement, including demonstrations, showcases and networking opportunities.
• Increase co-op opportunities, especially for niche majors.
• Introduce weekly engineering workshops to learn about majors. 

Sofia Estela

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Encourage involvement in the SGA.
• Make it easier for students to voice concerns to the SGA.

Jacob Hoernlein

Freshman

Key points:

• Fight against the Machine.
• Avoid anonymously passed bills. 
• Increase proper debate for all bills.

Grant Ingram

Freshman

Key points:

• Represent engineering students.

Ryan LaJoye

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Offer hybrid options for all classes to prevent overflow and missed classes.
• Create a day off for mental well-being.
• Standardize testing between courses.

Alex Petr

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Improve safety, inclusivity and mental health for all. 

Kiley Price

Freshman 

Key points:

• Better represent on-campus students
• Improve student life for engineering students.
• Expand resources for professional development and the Career Center.

Jackson Rudder

Freshman 

Key points:

• Require professors to notify students of curriculum or scheduling changes. 
• Improve networking for engineering students.
• Develop an online forum for students to voice concerns to senators. 

Bryant Segars

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Make campus safer and more accessible.
• Raise awareness on mental health.

William Calvin Wilbanks

Freshman 

Key points:

• Make the University a better and safer place to make friends and complete studies. 

Graduate School

Jennifer Baggett*

Graduate student 

Key points:

• Promote knowledge and academic and social opportunities.

Noel Keeney

Doctoral candidate 

Key points:

• Advocate for equality and higher education access.
• Increase wages and representation for graduate students.

Tolulope Kolapo

Year unknown

Key points:

• Promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Increase awareness of resources available. 
• Increase recommendations to aid equitable representation and provide opportunity for “female emancipation and growth.”

Daniel Leon

Doctoral candidate

Key points:

• Implement higher GTA stipend.
• Streamline process of graduate housing.

Jessica Lopez

Doctoral candidate

Key points:

• Create a forum for graduate students to voice input and concerns. 

Rebecca-Rose Lutonsky*

Doctoral candidate 

Key points:

• Increase GTA and GRA stipends.
• Implement clearer and simpler residency requirements.
• Create a forum for graduate students to voice concerns.

Justin McCleskey

Graduate student 

Key points:

• Increase SGA transparency.
• Increase graduate student representation. 

Viprav Raju

Doctoral candidate 

Key points:

• Improve graduate student access to student services like University Recreation, parking and meal plans.
• Create a separate football playoff ticket pool for graduate students. 
• Implement paper and stationery allowances.
• Promote diversity and inclusion for graduate students and in campuswide organizations.

Carter Sink

Graduate student 

Key points:

• Increase graduate student engagement with the SGA.

Emilia Stuart

Graduate student 

Key points:

• Add a program for graduate students to learn about electives and leadership opportunities related to their interests.
• Form a mentor opportunity for students returning to the University as grad students to help first-time UA grad students feel at home.

Justin Sweeney

Graduate student 

Key points:

• Increase student financial compensation and arts funding.
• Improve on-campus student life.

Caleb Williams

Graduate student 

Key points:

• Allow accelerated master’s program students to participate in graduate school elections.

College of Human and Environmental Sciences

Karina Collins

Freshman 

Key points:

• Implement an undergraduate mentorship program to bridge the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate education.
• Implement more dining options for those with dietary restrictions.
• Hire more faculty and staff from HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions and Asian American and Native American/Pacific Islander-serving institutions.

Emma Fraley

Freshman 

Key points:

• Develop a cross-training program with Culverhouse and C&IS to prepare HES students for self-employment.
• Build a network of graduates willing to mentor or apprentice current students in similar majors.

Jolie Golden

Freshman 

Key points:

• Create a place for CHES students to voice concerns to senators.
• Make course-required materials like textiles available at the SUPe Store.

Andrea Kugler

Junior 

Key points:

• Improve alcohol and drug prevention programming for new students.
• Raise awareness of mental health services in the UA and Tuscaloosa communities. 

College of Nursing

Kaleigh Shaw

Year unknown

Key points:

• Create more hands-on opportunities for lower-division nursing students. 

Sarah Kate Smalley

Freshman 

Key points:

• Be an advocate for positive change.
• Increase student involvement and community service. 

School of Social Work

Tori Atwater

Freshman 

Key points:

• Raise money for students who cannot afford counseling services. 
• Increase safety on campus.
• Implement virtual tours of Little Hall.

Lauren Kirk

Junior 

Key points:

• Mandate education and cultural awareness of UA history.
• Work with field education coordinators to make the field placement process more collaborative.
• Increase communication between social work students in the same cohort.

Sarah Pierce

Junior

Key points:

• Advance education and awareness of mental health and sexual assault.
• Waive $50 background check and $15 therapy session fees.

Elizabeth Prophet

Sophomore 

Key points:

• Increase transparency in the SGA, implementing fair election and campaign policies.
• Serve equity using the NASW Code of Ethics in decision-making and ensuring students of all backgrounds are heard.
• Promote self-care plans and their sustainability.

School of Law

John Dawson

Law student

Key points:

• Represent the law school in the SGA.
• Promote legislation that improves the law school’s national ranking.