Externally...

• We need a brand!

  • We are an Association with a council serving as a student corporation, yet we have no brand.  One of my first acts would be to strike an ad hoc committee to jump-start marketing for the Education Students' Council and the Association of pre-service students.  As a part of my platform for engagement, I will engage the Faculty in a serious and thoughtful discussion about the desired identity of the Association and the ESC.  I sat on the Faculty Council last year as the Master's students' representative and was part of the discussion as to distinguishing our Faculty of Education from the other Faculties of Education throughout Ontario.  As your ESC president I would continue to push for specialization of the program and try to reflect this specialization in the marketing and identity of the ESC and the Association.

• We're in the city of London.

  • Outside all my other endeavors, I'm currently an executive in a newly struck not-for-profit called Municipolitics which is dedicated to providing civics programming in high schools.  The program is designed to bring municipal poilitics, the politics that most often matter the most to the youth in London, into the high school classroom.  Through teaching organizations like Municipolitics and civic engagement assemblies like our parent the London Youth Advisory Council, along with our collaborators, I'll bring local teaching and learning initiatives to you for the benefit of your T2P and beyond.

• I really want to sit on the USC and make professional programs like our own heard.

  • Most people dread these kinds of secondary responsibilities but the USC is the only major student government I haven't yet been a part of at Western, other than Huron's and Bruscia's.  The USC traditionally favors the perspectives and voices of undergrads in academic programming, and so I will make professional programs like our own accounted for in USC decisions.