Class of 2028

My priorities for the Board of Trustees:

Climate, Affordability, and Non-compliance. “CAN” represents what we the students need most right now: protection.

To protect us, the Cornell Board of Trustees must use their power to protect our future, affordable housing and education, and the freedom of speech and to dream. We must closely guard the mission of this university, during these demanding and frightening times more than ever.

As your student-elected representative, I will be your unwavering voice, advocating for policies that conserve our freedoms and implementing protocols that would protect LGTBQ+ and international students and staff from being targeted on campus by the authorities or by the administration. I will support the Big Red mission to “do the greatest good” by pushing for an emergency fund for Cornellians affected by federal policy and cuts and financially supporting the work of Anabel’s Grocery, CTA and other student-led impact projects on campus.

For our present, I will advocate for capping student cost of attendance, meal plan flexibility for dorm dwellers, increased co-op support, and creative, cheaper housing options. And for our future, I will declare a climate emergency at the university: revive the lagging Climate Action Plan, cut university relations to oil companies and war manufacturers, and hopefully transfer Cornell’s mineral rights of sacred land obtained via the Morrill Act to the rightful indigenous owners.

Is this an ambitious plan? No doubt.
Is it doable? Together, We CAN.

My experience:

Currently, I serve on the Cornell Student Assembly’s Environmental Committee. I am most proud of being the lead organizer for SA R20 “Climate Renewal Vows” in collaboration with Cornell on Fire, which outlines many of the environmental policies I hope to advocate for as your trustee.

Additionally, in my senior year of high school, I was selected to represent the 99,000+ students of my district, Prince William County, on our Superintendent’s Advisory Council on Sustainability. As a board member, I advised the superintendent on building efficiency and sustainability, mainly. I personally led the initiative for all future landscape maintenance vehicles and instruments to be electric. I also helped advise the construction of our district’s first net-zero school.

At my high school, I also served on our Counseling Advisory Board, advising counselors on how to improve students’ mental health and career support. I also led our No Place for Hate club to destroy the toxic competitive culture.

My interests:

I am always looking for how I can be most useful–especially in regards to the environment. Therefore, I’m studying "computational sustainability" through an infosci major and an animal science minor, pre-law (CHEM 2070 permitting). I put on sustainable programs for my neighbors at Ecology House as the program director, I’m a certified Master Naturalist (and Cornell Meinig National Scholar), and my FWS job is at the Lab of Ornithology, supporting DEI in birding. 

I’m also entrepreneurial. My team "Monsters, Inc.” won the 2025 Animal Health Hackathon for ideating a device that can auto-detect avian flu in farms. I founded and run a youth-for-youth peace action empowerment movement, Peaceful Planet. Currently, PP is working on putting out a film with the talented Filmmaking Society to celebrate the resistance of peace-promoting students at Cornell in the current political climate. You inspire.

Finally, I am the biggest noob on the women’s ice hockey club. Very humbling, but I love it.