“I’ve been elected as the 2026-2027 ASG Vice President, and I’m so excited for the upcoming school year. I’ve been involved in leadership since middle school, so this means a lot to me.

I think what set me apart from the other candidates was my heavy involvement in class council. I was a freshman and now sophomore class officer, and I believe both times I have elevated class council by encouraging more people to join and accepting more people from diverse backgrounds and different friend groups. Usually, after freshman year, you see a big decrease in the number of applicants for sophomore year class council. However this year, we got 100 applicants, and during homecoming week, our class was extremely involved with class dance and lip sync. Beyond competition with other classes, we all enjoyed and took pride in our work, which made it even more memorable.

I think a lot of this carries into my role as vice president. My workload will obviously be a lot higher, and I’ll have to expand my focus to all four classes and their class officers — one of the challenges will be to assist every single class given their different needs. For example, during my freshman year, my class struggled with finance, and other classes struggled with attendance and numbers. So one of my roles will be to assess each class’ problems and give my time to help them.

I think that my experience as president at Horner taught me how to have empathy and assertiveness at the same time. It’s hard to balance friendships while being a leader, especially in ASG, because oftentimes you’re working with your friends. At Horner, I was able to practice navigating this. My advisor then, Mr. Shaffer, was super helpful, and now, Mr. Willer is one of the most driven, dedicated people I know — I try to work towards his level of control. I’ve also learned so much from my experiences of being class officer these past two years: meeting advisors and ASG members, as well as working with different people of all age groups. I’ve been working with Jay since middle school, and he has such a unique approach to leadership. 

Oftentimes in ASG and class council, you see people who are very like minded. But my biggest goal is to, with the support of president elect Jay Bhimani, diversify and make class councils more inclusive. I know it’s a common goal, but I want to try a different approach to make a larger number of students become invested in ASG’s initiatives. In ASG, different committees are each led by an executive. The executive team determines how involved and engaged the ASG class is, since they choose committee members. So when choosing executives, I want to aim for people with different backgrounds and interests to offer different perspectives. Some students care deeply about ASG, and I want to give them recognition. I want to encourage all students who want to be involved, and who are just too scared, to step up.”