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2025 USAC election ballot features 32 candidates

Kerckhoff Hall, which hosts the offices of the Undergraduate Students Association Council, is pictured. The 2025 USAC election ballot will feature 32 candidates. (Andrew Diaz/Daily Bruin)

By Eleanor Meyers

April 8, 2025 11:46 p.m.

The 2025 Undergraduate Students Association Council election ballot will feature the fewest candidates since 2022.

Thirty-two candidates will appear on the ballot, which will be open May 9 to May 16. Six candidates are running unopposed for their positions. The USA Elections Board will announce the results May 16 at 7 p.m.

The elections board and the Daily Bruin will co-host candidate debates April 30 and May 1 at 7 p.m. in the De Neve Auditorium.

Candidates:

President (6)

  • Mafruha Esha, a second-year biochemistry and mathematics student
  • Christina Morcus, a third-year cognitive science and international development studies student
  • Teesha Sreeram, a third-year international development studies student
  • Syed Tamim Ahmad, a third-year physiological science student (current international student representative)
  • Diego Emilio Bollo, a third-year labor studies and political science student (current general representative)
  • Jiorden King, a third-year student

Internal vice president (2)

  • Eman Almuti, a third-year psychobiology student
  • Tommy Contreras, a third-year political science and public affairs student (current general representative)

External vice president (1)

  • Sherry Zhou, a third-year communication and political science student

General representatives (9)

  • Jayha Buhs-Jackson, a first-year African American studies and public affairs student
  • Brett Berndt, a third-year political science student
  • Averie Roice, a third-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student
  • Talia Davood, a second-year political science student
  • Lara Keshav, a second-year chemical engineering student
  • Vikas Sundar, a third-year economics and statistics and data science student
  • Paige Zwerner, a second-year communication and political science student
  • Maya Wertheim, a second-year history student who was previously a member of Daily Bruin Opinion
  • David Escobedo, a first-year business economics student

Academic Affairs commissioner (2)

  • Cristopher Espino, a third-year education and social transformation and political science student (incumbent)
  • Abrar Alzabin, a second-year human biology and society student

Campus Events commissioner (1)

  • Daniel Leal, a third-year neuroscience student

Community Service commissioner (1)

  • Edison Chua, a second-year cognitive science and economics student

Cultural Affairs commissioner (3)

  • Mitchell Stevens II, a third-year human biology and society student
  • Angel Lopez, a first-year student and Daily Bruin Opinion intern
  • Divine Trewick, a second-year sociology student

Facilities commissioner (1)

  • Joy Huang, a third-year environmental science student (incumbent)

Financial Supports commissioner (1)

  • Nico Morrone, a third-year financial actuarial mathematics student (incumbent)

Student Wellness commissioner (2)

  • Hannah Yip, a third-year computational and systems biology student
  • Johanna Vu, a third-year sociology student

Transfer student representative (1)

  • Hyerim Yoon, a third-year English and history student

International student representative (2)

  • Keya Tanna, a third-year psychology student
  • Kristiano Sleiman, a second-year physics student

Meyers is an Arts contributor and a News contributor on the campus politics beat. She is a third-year English and political science student minoring in film, television and digital media from Napa, California.
Meyers is an Arts contributor and a News contributor on the campus politics beat. She is a third-year English and political science student minoring in film, television and digital media from Napa, California.
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