IT’S TIME TO VOTE!
Meet your candidates below!
LeadLUU has taken over campus this past few weeks, and it’s finally time to meet your candidates.
Every single one of these students is dedicated to LUU and its processes, and has plans in place for what they would do to make your Union a better place. With 16 roles available, there are tons of candidates to meet, so why not get to know them?
Who will you vote for?
Student Executives & PGR Trustee
Union Affairs & Community
Amala Bonnie: Improving student lives through participatory and collaborative student governance, financial accessibility, and stronger connections with the city.
Sourav Dasgupta: Introduce free meals once a week and wants to bring self-belonging to Leeds.
Poppy Glaze: Sweetening your student experience with her ‘three c’s’: extensive local charity networks, long term career solutions and access to creativity. ‘
AJ Semark: AJ is running as part of the Equality and Justice Slate. Their campaign is about making LUU feel more like a home by making it 24 hours, and protecting students right to protest.
Lucy Hart: Together we can reduce rent increase, increase employment opportunities, get cheaper bus travel and bring back the winter tent.
Welfare & Liberation
Sebastian Glasper: ‘Safer housing, safer people and safer liberation! Be safer with Seb.’
Myra Vaish: Advocating for support that is accessible, community that is affordable, and a university that feels like home. ‘You’ve paid to be here; you shouldn’t have to pay to belong’
Mahek R. Mattikop: A one-stop, easy access mental health support platform, for every student to thrive. ‘Your wellbeing matters’
Abinaya Ashok Anand: As an International student, Abinaya knows how it feels to question your belonging at university. She wants everyone to feel confident and included to be themselves.
Amyra Surana: Overhaul wellbeing services, let students self certify. Trans rights, free palestine, refugees welcome.
Student Opportunities & Development
Nolly Quinn: Promoting student creativity, student led initiatives, citywide connectivity and community building.
Hannah Parish: Make societies more accessible for everyone by improving awareness and funding, introducing a dedicated martial arts space and lobbying to remove 5-6pm lectures.
Tineka Jennings: Tinks has had a great time at uni, and wants to share this experience with everyone at Leeds. ‘I say bring back the Winter Tent!’
Isabelle Beauvoisin: Isabelle is running as part of the Equality and Justice Slate. She wants all arms companies off campus, to protect our right to protest and to demand student democracy.
Vishesh Kapoor: Expanding student opportunities and funding, stronger industry and alumni connections, more access to societies and skill development.
Academic Experience
Sylvie Reed: ‘A vote for me is a vote for paid community officers in every school, a better deal for joint honours students and giving a voice to non-Western Researchers.’
Annika Nair: Make your time studying count with better assessments, real career pathways, and a system that works for you. ‘Don’t pannika, vote Annika.’
Mohammad Tasfiq Jawaad: Bridging the gap between the classroom and the workforce, digitally showcasing academic work, and establishing an emergency maintenance fund.
Nico Li: Nico is running as part of the Equality and Justice Slate. They want an ethical partnership, with refugee and migrant students welcome, for student and staff solidarity.
Anushya Sinha: Your voice in every academic decision, real support for every student at Leeds, fairer clearer academics for all.
Maria Cavalaro: Stronger academic support for Leeds students, better discovery modules and workload balance, more access to facilities and opportunities.
International Experience
Diksha Soni: Tackle high tuition costs, improve visa support and housing constraints for International Students.
Dian WU: Create a platform where students can rate their professors, share food with others, and access campus information more easily.
Dubem Chukwudubem Okeke: Life in a new country can be tough, and Dubem promises to push for fairer renting, rural grants and practical integration support, so Leeds can become your home away from home.
Katrina Liu: Katrina is committed to working on student finance, building an inclusive community, tailoring support for international students and fighting for international students’ rights!
Arushi Guha: If you’re an international student always paying for services you don’t have access to, Arushi wants to change that and make them available year-round.
Vandit Kapoor: Real support, real opportunity, a real voice for every student.
Chien Lu: Live life as it should be even when you’re far from home.
Postgraduate Trustee
Josh and Charlotte: PGR’s need a bigger voice within LUU, and they want to represent that voice within your student union.
Liberation & Identity Engagement
LGBTQ+ Engagement
Ash Mallen: ‘LGBTQ+ students have to put in extra effort to gain what is a necessity for them. I am going to push for easier access to information and products for all students and society members.’ Ash wants to push for queer access, joy and space within LUU.
Tee Smith: Tee wants to protect preferred names by ‘getting the university to respect them’ and prioritise gender expression funding. ‘Closeted or not, we all deserve the same support.’
Gender Engagement
Kelsey Wittner: Kelsey wants female students to feel safe enough to walk home alone, wants trans students to feel safe enough to use the bathroom, and for us all to have effective mental health support on campus.
Race & Ethnicity Engagement
Janeeta Rahardjo: ‘I don’t want to be your friend regardless of where you come from, I want to be your friend because of it!’ Janeeta wants to make sure you never feel like a stranger in Leeds!
Tia Bish: Strengthen community to end isolation for BAME students. Tailor academic and employability for BAME students. Rebuild wellbeing services to reflect our lived experiences.
Manny Jah: Evelate every voice, cultivate belonging, confront inequality head-on.
Disabled & Neurodivergent
Lula Hoffmann: ‘Access comes first. As disabled and neurodiverse students, this campus is not built for us, but it does belong to us, so let’s make it ours!’
Eve Groombridge: Pushing for neurodiverse students to get better financial support, quiet support spaces, and accessible job information from the Union.
Yulin Li: Empathy, cross-cultural, empowerment.
Rose Arcos: Transparent activites and accessibility, proactive and prepared arrangements, active community engagement.
Class & Social Inequalities Engagement
Check back next week to see new candidate aims!
Faculty Engagement Leaders
Medicine & Health Engagement
Salma Al Tawaya: Students deserve real value from their degrees, by altering student feedback into real action and strengthening the link between students, reps and the faculty.
Mohammad Almahri: More support in finding careers and internships, as what the medicine and health department has now is not enough!
Jun Siong Lee: Introduce weekly drop-in sessions to propose changes and feedback for everyone in his faculty.
Amirtha Varusini Sunthera Pandiyan: Your voice: heard. Your goals: prioritised. Your future: empowered.
Engineering & Physical Sciences Engagement
Emma Chaloner: Better assessment platforms, clearer feedback, more breaks and more career opportunities. ‘Your voice can shape our future.’
Shreya Shambhavi: More internships and opportunities, paid apprenticeships, William Bragg lab access, better GPU computers.
Mohammed R Butt: Building a campus that supports commuters, growing interdisciplinary community in EPS, better studying, wellbeing, and financial support.
Social Sciences & Environment Engagement
Reem Baloch: Ensure that all the environmental and social science degrees are put to good use, with plenty of opportunities for jobs and experience.
Millie K Balu: Demanding more for our education, and wants to advocate for enhanced employability, improve student voice, and clear communication.
Narayani Gawande: More job opportunities, more help with placements and more interactive sessions.
Arts, Humanities & Culture Engagement
Cat (Tongyu Zhou) : Culture isn’t cold, I’ll be your bridge!
Business Engagement
Check back next week for more candidate aims!
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