The GSA Executive Board consists of elected graduate students charged with advocating for graduate student concerns and interests and representing graduate students at large. They perform a variety of roles, such as: coordinating Council meetings, appointing grads to campus committees, bringing grad concerns to administrators, ensuring that reps get paid and allocated funding is distributed, and participating in the statewide UC Student Association. Officers are elected at the end of spring quarter for an annual term. Job descriptions and information about the nomination process can be found here.
The 2018-2019 Board:
- President: Randy Villegas, Politics
- Chair of the Council: Radhika Prasad, Literature
- Vice President of Shared Governance: Katie Hellier, Physics
- External Vice President: Rebecca Ora, Film & Digital Media
- Secretary/Webmaster: Roy Sfadia, Physics
- Treasurer: Ashwin Krishnan, Economics, and Jin Bian, Economics
- Solidarity Officer: Natalie Ng, Anthropology, and Peng Zhou, Electrical Engineering
Other Important Roles:
- International Grad Student Committee Chair (appointed position): Antony Boardman, Literature, and Yulia Gilichinskaya, Film and Digital Media
- Research and Travel Grants Coordinators (appointed position): Alexandra Race, Education, and Juliana Nzongo, METX