My tenure in the CMU Student Senate was instrumental in growing my love for policy as I led campus-wide initiatives to improve the student experience. As Chair of the Committee on Business Affairs in my junior year and Senate Vice President in my senior year, I developed Student Senate into a more proactive organization focusing on the issues that matter to students the most (and fulfilled my campaign promises along the way). Internally, I focused on empowering senators to focus on the initiatives they truly care about. With my leadership, the Student Senate:

• Transitioned student government elections to a fair ranked voting system (which I developed)
• Successfully advocated for opening a university-wide Office of Diversity
• Successfully advocated for extending the minimum deadline for internship return offers
• Successfully advocated for improving the availability of detailed course information prior to registration
• Successfully advocated for releasing final exam schedules earlier in the semester
• Embraced new technologies and modernized bylaws with version control
• Restructured internal processes to create an initiative system that empowered individual Senators
• Led one of the most successful years for recruitment in Student Senate history